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Tom Burr

"Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of longing. It could be called dissatisfaction; it could be called distance. There are many kinds of wanting to get closer to something else, whether that is an idea, a body, a place. Longing is also one of the conditions people approach reading, visual art, or music with - it's to satisfy that sense of longing. It's part of my job, on some level, to grapple with that notion."

-- Tom Burr

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“Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.”
“There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”
“Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.”
“Jesus is not your accuser. Heâ€™s not your prosecutor. Heâ€™s not your judge. Heâ€™s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Donâ€™t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Donâ€™t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.”
“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.”
“I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'”

Source : "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". The Bon Appétit Magazine Interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.
“The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of nature by experiment and observation. But there was another feature of the new science-a dependence on numbers, on real numbers of actual experience.”

Source : I. Bernard Cohen (2006). “The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
“Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.”

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