"Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man."

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Albert C. Barnes

#Art Quotes #Men Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes

“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.”
“When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.”
“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.
“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”
“What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.”
“When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manualâ€”even a one-word manualâ€”then it is a failure, poorly designed.”

Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Ch. 4, p. 87; regarding doors labeled "Push" and "Pull", 2002.
“Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.”
“The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.”

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