"All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts."

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Source : "Richard Diebenkorn".

Richard Diebenkorn

#Mean Quotes #Artist Quotes #Expression Quotes

“The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality through the biblical story - that the purpose of life is to glorify God - a personal being who is ultimate over us and everything else - and enjoy him forever. This should be clear to all Christians, but many Christians have been influenced to think otherwise even about the Bible because of dabbling in movements such as the New Age Movement or the Gospel of Health and Wealth or even naturalistic humanism.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“What's the deal with Ovaltine? It comes in a round container, you put it in a round glass, why don't they call it Roundtine?”
“Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?...”
“I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.”
“The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it”

Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage
“Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.”
“If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?”
“There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.”

Source : "DST's Yuri Milner: 'This is the era of mathematicians … It's not about social networking'" by Mike Butcher, techcrunch.com. November 12, 2010.

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