"When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible."

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Source : "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

Emile Chartier

#Fashion Quotes #Song Quotes #Art Quotes

“Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.”
“Go to the phone, dial the number on the screen as fast as you can. Give $50 dollars a month for 10 months, God will do a now miracle...Wooo! I feel the Holy Spirit...We are not talking hocus pocus, this is a word from God...I have come to Dallas and Daystar with a word from God...God is speaking to people to give $5,000.”
“It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.”
“When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.”

Source : William J. Bernstein (2009). “The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between”, John Wiley & Sons
“Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.”
“Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.”
“Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.”
“I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.”

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