"All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art."

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Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

Clive Bell

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“It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.”
“To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”
“When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight. Where do these ideas come from? Supernatural? Enigmatic? Divine? You can take that any way you like. I think the human mind does a lot of things that we could call somehow divine.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.”
“Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Thanatos Syndrome”, p.6, Open Road Media
“Korea and the U.S. have maintained a combined forces command system for a long time. Even if we were to get operational control back, as long as this combined system is maintained, our countries will continue to have combined security, and U.S. forces will continue to play their part in our security.”
“There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.”
“The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.”

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