"It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall."

-- Jack Levine

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“Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.”
“Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.”
“I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.”
“[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).”
“If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.”
“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.”
“Americans were in love with mesmerism because it was something that you could do in your own home. You could mesmerize or hypnotize your aunt or your mother or your father and people would go into these trance states and you could introduction autosuggestions tot hem or as some people saw it, you could cure them of illnesses.”
“Being a Celtic supporter is not always easy, but it is always worthwhile.”

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