"art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception."

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Source : Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press

Dore Ashton

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“There has been no warming over 18 years.”
“To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.”
“I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery. That is why I am here today. . . . You want to shut up every colored person who wants to fight for the rights of his people!.”
“This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.”
“That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.”
“Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.”
“The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real,”
“Where laws end, tyranny begins.”

Source : William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387

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