"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

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Source : Quoted in Anatole Broyard Aroused by Books (1974).

Edward Hopper

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“You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.”
“It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.”
“I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.”
“One lives everything down in time.”

Source : Arthur B. Reeve, R. Austin Freeman, John Russell Fearn, Cleveland Moffett, Samuel Hopkins Adams (2012). “The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Tales of Detection”, p.3069, Wildside Press LLC
“Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.”
“For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.”
“Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.”
“I'm good at everything.”

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