"habits are happiness of a sort..."

-- Randall Jarrell

“For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.”
“Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.”
“The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.”
“I don't read Science Fiction.”
“[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.”

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“Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.”
“A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.”
“I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.”

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