"Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before."

-- Jerry Saltz

#Bologna Quotes #Jars Quotes #Bottles Quotes

“We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.”
“All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.”
“The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.”

Source : "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.
“A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.”
“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, â€œIf this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.â€ They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins
“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
“I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes”

Source : "'Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars' - season premiere recap". www.digitalspy.com. September 25, 2012.
“In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.”

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