"The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism."

-- Dennis Oppenheim

#Ideas Quotes #Giving Quotes #Photograph Quotes

“Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?”
“You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.”
“To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.”
“Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.”
“Competing helps me to polish my shape.”
“Id like an omelet named after me.”
“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.”
“Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.”

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