"In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?"

-- Eugene Delacroix

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“I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.”
“Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?”
“Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.”
“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”

Source : "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.
“I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.”
“Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.”
“The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.”
“When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ruben Papian from Feb 02, 2016

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