"As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism."

-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

#Movement Quotes #Cubism Quotes #Heretic Quotes

“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.186, Penguin
“Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.”
“Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.”
“Authority. The antithesis of science.”

Source : Stephen Baxter (2012). “Moonseed”, p.50, HarperCollins UK
“If I fail more than you do, I win.”
“NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.”
“We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.”
“Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The essence of security: reflections in office”

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