"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."

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Source : Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

Georg Baselitz

#Unique Quotes #Simple Quotes #Important Quotes

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
“Even abstract shapes must have a likeness”

Source : Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.13, The Museum of Modern Art
“We can't always take the most obvious road in life.”
“...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.”
“Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.”
“The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.”

Source : Lee Smolin (2013). “Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe”, p.141, Knopf Canada
“Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, We'll march until we reach our goal,”
“I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.”

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