"The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience."

-- Sid Grossman

#Doe Quotes #Fallacy Quotes #Naturalism Quotes

“I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!”

Source : Tobias Smollett (1809). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker”
“If John Wayne were alive, heâ€™d be rolling over in his grave!”
“Sending our youth to war is wrong.”

Source : Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.
“To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.”

Source : "The Face Of The Third Reich". Book by Joachim C. Fest, Chapter 13, Part 3, 1970.
“Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.”
“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.”

Source : "A Father of Modern Finance" by Rebecca Rolfes, www.chicagobooth.edu. 2013.
“The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.”
“I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.”

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