"Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that."

-- Brice Marden

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“You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense”
“Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.”
“The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.”
“I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant way as people think.”
“You alone are responsible”
“They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.”
“Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.”
“What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearanceâ€¦ in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, â€˜to cease to be among menâ€™) just as action in the sense of â€˜to make a beginningâ€™ is a repetition of birth.”

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