"If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro."

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Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc

Ernst Gombrich

#Perception Quotes #Looks Quotes #World Quotes

“I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.”
“I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.”
“If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.”
“It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.”
“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.”

Source : Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.8, Knopf
“My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.”
“Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.”
“Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it”

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