"The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history"

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Source : Christopher Wood (1981). “The Pre-Raphaelites”, Studio

Christopher Wood

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“You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going.”
“It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it.”
“The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.”
“Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.”
“Good positions don't win games, good moves do”
“We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?”
“My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.”
“In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.”

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