"The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess."

-- Ernst Gombrich

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“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”
“In life they're not going to serve you lemons, they're going to serve you lemonade; and I don't really like lemonade because I've got a really bad acid reflux.”
“Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.”

Source : Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”
“Religion is caught, not taught.”
“No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.”
“The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.”
“Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.”
“The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”

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