"The essential point of view of Christianity is sin."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”
“I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.”
“I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.”

Source : BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 23, 2001.
“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.”
“Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has presence; but it always yields a picture - no matter whether good or bad. That's all the theory. It's no good. I once took some small photographs and then smeared them with paint. That partly resolved the problem, and it's really good - better than anything I could ever say on the subject.”
“A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.”

Source : John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.29, Mercer University Press
“More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive”
“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.”

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