"What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones."

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Source : Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

Jean Dubuffet

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“I would love to do a period piece. That would be really cool. And also like to do something transformative and have to transform yourself physically to become that character. Any interesting, fun roles, I'm attracted to.”
“The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4.”

Source : Letter To Carl Alfred Meier, 1950.
“To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.”
“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”
“Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.”
“Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.”
“As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.”
“Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.”

Source : Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media

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