"Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us."

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Damien Hirst

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“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”

Source : "Geographica". Book by Strabo, 7 BC.
“There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.”
“Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.”
“Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.”
“Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.”
“Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.”
“You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.”
“People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.”

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