"All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will."

-- Antoni Tapies

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“I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?”
“History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.241
“In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.”
“U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.”
“Like most men, I am consumed with desire whenever a lesbian gets within twenty feet.”
“Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.”

Source : Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House
“The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.”
“From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.”

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