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“When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.”
Source : W. A. Mathieu (1991). “The Listening Book”, p.113, Shambhala Publications
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“Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.”
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“Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!”
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“Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.”
Source : "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art" by Edward Helmore, Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.
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“The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.”
Source : Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig (1979). “Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary”, Avon Books
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“A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.”
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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”