"In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting."

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Source : Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”

Thomas Eakins

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“Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.”

Source : Bette Greene (1984). “Summer of my German soldier”, Starfire
“Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.”
“The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.”
“I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.”
“Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.”
“It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.”
“The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.”
“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”

Source : Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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