"It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly."

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Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

Bridget Riley

#Moving Quotes #Eye Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The Zen expression â€œKill the Buddha!â€ means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.”
“My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.”
“There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.”
“If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.”

Source : Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.106, University of Pennsylvania Press
“The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.”
“I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could think of nothing better to do than to beguile her with some farrago about wishing Damerel to strew rose-leaves for you to walk on!" Damerel, who had resumed his seat, had been staring moodily into the fire, but at these words he looked up quickly. "Rose-leaves?" His eyes went to Venetia's face, wickedly quizzing her. "But my dear girl, at this season?" "Be quiet, you wretch!" she said, blushing.”
“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.”

Source : "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.
“I'm not gay, a lotta people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend. She thinks I'm gay.”

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