"A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image."

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Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Rose (1970*). “Frankenthaler”

Helen Frankenthaler

“When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.”
“Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
“Life I love you, all is groovy.”

Source : Song: The 59th Street Bridge Song
“Culture is everything you don't have to do.”

Source : Interview with Steven Johnson, howwegettonext.com. December 18, 2015.
“Thereâ€™s something about it that makes other good habits easier.”
“Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.”
“Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.65, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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