"Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way."

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Source : Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”

Mark Rothko

#Drama Quotes #Way Quotes #Renaissance Quotes

“Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible”
“The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.”
“I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.”
“Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.”
“My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy that serves me to meet these needs.”
“Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead?”
“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage
“There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.”

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