Quotes
Authors
Guillaume Apollinaire

"The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension."

-- Guillaume Apollinaire

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“Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.”
“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
“Richie Faulkner is very respectful to the songs that he plays from when [founding member] K.K. [Downing] was in the band. He plays them incredibly. And he's got his own nuances and his own techniques that he puts in - as he should.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3
“Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.”
“I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.”
“And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)”
“The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions....”

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