"If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child."

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Source : Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

Giorgio de Chirico

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“We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible to experience the Gothic period, not to mention the Romantic. Only nothing remains of the industrial age. So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever.”
“No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 690), 1922.
“Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.”

Source : William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”
“The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performanceâ€: â€œThe differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.”
“Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.”
“For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.”
“Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.”

Source : B.J. Fogg (2003). “Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do”, p.33, Morgan Kaufmann
“The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.”

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