"There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages."

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Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

Goldwin Smith

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love Donnie Darko movie so much. Just before I got that script, I had been to see some European art film. I walked out of that movie and said to my husband, "That's what I want to do! I want to do an art film and take it to the edge." Within two weeks, we were getting ready to go on vacation, and my agent called.”
“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.”
“I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.”
“Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult”
“I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.”
“The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.”
“In the western world today everyone is a democrat.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Preface, p. ix, 1985.

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