"To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind of rudimentary alphabet by means of which everything could be expressed with the most limited means. They evoked prehistoric runes and the early I-Ching, or Book of Changes."

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Source : "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., p. 98, 1964.

Michel Seuphor

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“Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?”

Source : Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”
“Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.”
“The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.”
“It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .”
“A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.”
“We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”

Source : "Farewell to the woman they called the Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley dies at 87" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2007.
“Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie”
“The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.”

Source : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.495, Princeton University Press

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