"No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what."

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Source : Roger Fry, Christopher Reed (1996). “A Roger Fry Reader”, p.362, University of Chicago Press

Roger Fry

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“Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.”

Source : "Greening America’s Schools: costs and benefits". Research by Gregory Kats, www.usgbc.org. October 2006.
“Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of oneâ€™s own life.”
“the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat”
“When you feel like something is really wrong, it's usually wrong”

Source : Kris Jenner (2012). “Kris Jenner . . . And All Things Kardashian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
“I got this grave yard woman.”
“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
“Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.”

Source : "On the State of Our Politics - Commencement Message" by Eric Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2016.
“I always admire people who have passion.”

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