"All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality."

-- Ernst Gombrich

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“To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.”
“Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.”
“Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.”
“A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.”
“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
“Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.”
“The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.4

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