"It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.”
“If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That's why it's not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not-you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.”

Source : "Drawing & Exhibitions: Richard Tuttle". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2005.
“Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
“Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.”
“The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.”

Source : "Industrial Engineering". An Address Delivered at the Purdue University, February 24, 1905.
“It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.”

Source : Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.63
“I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.”
“It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,'”

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