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“the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.”
Source : Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition”, Not Avail
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“There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.”
Source : Horace Marden Albright, Marston Bates (1962). “The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship”
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“Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements.”
Source : "Productive thinking". Book by Max Wertheimer, p. 190, 1945.
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“Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.”
Source : "Techs sink European markets", www.cnn.com. December 18, 2002.
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“What was the point of a sacrifice if it wasn't meant for the ones you loved?”
Source : Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.702, Pan Macmillan
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“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”
Source : John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”
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“You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings," Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. "Huh?" She shrugged. "That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.”