"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

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Source : "The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France". Book by Alison MacQueen, 2003.

Howard Hodgkin

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“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1870). “Ginger-snaps”, p.114
“Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.”
“Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.”
“Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”
“While the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working.”
“Finality is not the language of politics.”
“I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place”
“There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.”

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