"No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the empty canvas were signed by a great artist. I would be surprised if an empty canvas by Picasso or Matisse signed and inscribed with the words, 'I wanted to paint such and such on this canvas, but did not do so,' would not fetch thousands... After all, with an empty canvas, the possibilities are limitless, and so perhaps is the cash."

-- Semir Zeki

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“Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!”
“You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.”
“Control the things you can control .”
“I am flippant. That's one of my charms.”
“It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.”

Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.42, Kodansha International
“Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.”
“Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.”

Source : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).
“I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.”

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