"Everything is really about lighting."

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Source : "The More the Merrier — Robert Denning's Extravagance of Color and Pattern" by Cynthia Zarin in Architectural Digest v. 59 #4, pp. 146-152, April 2002.

Robert Denning

“Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.”
“I look at someone like Giggsy and he is an inspiration to all of us.”
“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”
“Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.”

Source : "Zombies and consciousness". Interview with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. September 10, 2011.
“Thatâ€™s the first step to learning: admitting what you donâ€™t know.”
“Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!”

Source : Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”
“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”
“Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.”

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