"The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him."

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Source : Max Ernst, Werner Spies, Sabine Rewald, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2005). “Max Ernst: A Retrospective”, p.54, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Max Ernst

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“I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.”
“Intelligence is not a science.”
“At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.”

Source : William Moses Kunstler (2004). “The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority”, Ocean Press (AU)
“"One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business."”
“See yourself being a master of gratitude in the future. Mentally picture how this will help you feel joy the moment you are awake and are grateful for being alive. See how you can be grateful and happy for each breath. Realize that when you master gratitude, you will see a happy face every time you look into the mirror. See how your entire quality of life will be improved. See how other people will tell you that they enjoy being around you because you are such a happy person.”
“Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.”
“I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.”
“My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it â€˜informationâ€™, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it â€˜uncertaintyâ€™. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, â€œYou should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.â€”

Source : "Scientific American", Vol. 225, (p. 180), 1971.

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