"Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall."

-- Luc Tuymans

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“There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.”

Source : Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
“We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.”
“Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.173, William H. Calvin
“Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.”
“The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”
“There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.”
“The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.”
“Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.”

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