"To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing."

-- James Elkins

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“The well of true wit is truth itself.”
“Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.”
“We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.”

Source : "Axed Danny Baker delivers on-air rant at his BBC London bosses" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2012.
“An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.”
“You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1966). “The Lost World”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
“I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.”
“Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.”
“The more you're obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it.”

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