"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting."

-- Gustave Courbet

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“People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.”

Source : "Miranda July and Jonah Peretti on Reading Other People’s E-Mail". Interview with Jesse Ashlock, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. July 11, 2013.
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications
“The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...”
“The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.”
“What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.”
“Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.”
“So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”
“The best possible thing you can get out of a relationship is that youâ€™re with someone who encourages you to be the best version of yourself every day.”

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