"One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible."

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Source : Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter

Larry Rivers

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“I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.”
“If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers (.....) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us.”
“My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.”

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“Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.”
“Itâ€™s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.”
“The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!”
“[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.”

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