"Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms."

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Source : Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.316, Anchor

Chaim Potok

#Art Quotes #Vision Quotes #Form Quotes

“I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.”
“Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.”
“The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.”
“We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to keep the plant cool. So maybe we can think of building plants which are more resistant to heat. Genetically modified plants can be one answer and we can imagine more efficient plants, call them 'energy plants'. And I believe, contrary to what ecologists think, they can still be beautiful plants.”

Source : Source: www.lindau-nobel.org
“Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.”
“You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.143, Open Road Media
“We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.”
“What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.”

Source : "Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900". Book by Knott, Cargill Gilston, p. 1-2, 1911.

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