"I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark."

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Source : Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.52, Yale University Press

Euan Uglow

#Brain Quotes #Want Quotes #Mark Quotes

“Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.”
“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
“I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.”

Source : "José Manuel Barroso: 'How is Britain so open to the world, but so closed to Europe?'". Interview with David Miliband, www.newstatesman.com. July 11, 2012.
“You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease." -General Galgan to Mat”
“Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.”
“The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.”
“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.”
“We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame.”

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