"I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence."

-- David Batchelor

#Everyday Quotes #Use Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I don't eat a lot of anything. A little bit of everything, but not a lot of everything. Small meals all day long.”
“This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.”
“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.”
“I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.”
“The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?”
“If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.”
“I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.
“Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.”

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