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“Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.”
Source : "De Re Rustica". Book by Marcus Terentius Varro (Act III, Scene 1), 37 BC.
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“I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.”
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“Frankly, in order for us to have a healthier arts eco-system funders need to insulate their relationships with artists from the influence of moneyed interests, lobbying groups, and politics. The funders shouldn't have to parse their words, or say one thing to one group and another to another. One statement, freedom of expression, end of story.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.”
Source : "Marcel Duchamp’s Influence". Art21 Interview, art21.org.
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“There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.”
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“By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.”
Source : Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books
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“I'm more influenced by people's attitudes and spirits than by their particular style. Whether it's Elsie de Wolfe or Pauline de Rothschild, I always admire women who had a vision and stuck to it. Because ultimately, the way you live has to be a reflection of you.”
Source : "Women in Design: Charlotte Moss". Interview with Mitchell Owens, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.
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“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”