"To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy."

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Hans Hofmann

#Empathy Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Plastic Quotes

“I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.”
“I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.”
“Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.”
“And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.”

Source : "LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 14, 2005.
“It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.”
“She was a remarkable person and the love of my life.”
“There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything thatâ€™s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that donâ€™t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everythingâ€™s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleepâ€”then they appear.”
“Iâ€™d have much rather gotten dragged into someone elseâ€™s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other peopleâ€™s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.”

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