"Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius."

-- Gustave Eiffel

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“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.”
“I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.”

Source : Life Interview, January 1991.
“You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.
“I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.”
“There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will.”
“I saw [ that I and my father, Cecil end our careers with 319 home runs] after I retired. It was just weird. With all the games we played, neither one of us could hit one more home run? Obviously, it was supposed to go that way. It's a pretty cool thing, I guess.”

Source : Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com
“For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.”
“To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.”

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