"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."

-- Bridget Riley

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“Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.”
“Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (2001). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.178, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.”
“The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.”
“I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.”
“It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.”
“The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.”
“Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.”

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