"I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure."

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Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.

Caio Fonseca

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #House Quotes

“Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.”
“Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.”
“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.”

Source : Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company
“A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
“I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.”
“Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.”
“I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.”
“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”

Source : "Interview with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger". 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.

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