"As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event."

-- Robert Genn

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“Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'”
“Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.”
“When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.”
“A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.”
“I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.”
“We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.”
“One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.”

Source : Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.85, Modern Library
“A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.”

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