"Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures."

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Source : Gyorgy Kepes (1995). “Language of Vision”, p.46, Courier Corporation

Gyorgy Kepes

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“We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy."”
“I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself”
“Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him”
“An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.”
“Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.”
“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.”
“Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do our best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make.”
“To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.”

Source : Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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