"Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual."

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Source : Dutch art-magazine: 'Eenheid' no. 283, November 6, 1915.

Theo van Doesburg

#Spiritual Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Color Quotes

“What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.”
“Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.”

Source : Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.
“Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.”
“With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism - the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.”

Source : "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.
“It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?”
“You need strategies that help rule things out. That's the opposite of saying, "This is what my gut is telling me; let me gather information to confirm it."”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
“Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.”

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