"The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth."

-- John Ruskin

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“One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”
“The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.”
“Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.”
“But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times.”
“So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."”
“With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.”

Source : Ladislav Sutnar (1961). “Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes”
“No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.”

Source : William Henry Davies, “The Mind's Liberty”

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