"In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins."

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Source : "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

Antoni Tapies

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“I got to a happier point and then started making a record [Wild Things]. I don't mind at all that it sounds like LA, because LA was integral to me feeling better. Seeing the sunshine and all that other sorts of stuff was definitely a huge part in why the album sounds like it sounds.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.”
“Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2005.
“We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Here's to Future Days", 2009), (2005 - ).
“Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.158, Univ of California Press
“Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.
“Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.”
“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”

Source : Charles Du Bos (1940). “What is literature?”

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