"I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line."

-- Ellsworth Kelly

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“I donâ€™t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
“If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.”
“It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.”
“Iâ€™ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life â€“ once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.”
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”

Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.5, Penguin
“To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.”
“The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an hypothesis adapted to the explanation of chemical phenomena... whether a further development of the atomic hypothesis promises to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of chemical phenomena... I rather expect that we shall some day find, for what we now call atoms, a mathematico-mechanical explanation, which will render an account of atomic weight, of atomicity, and of numerous other properties of the so-called atoms.”

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