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| | We prefer knowing to thinking because knowing has more immediate value. . . . . Few talk ideas. Everyone talks information.
—Neal Gabler |
| | We are constantly drawing the world together in terms of resemblances and recastings, and the job of artists is to draw the lines anew to startle us, wake us up, see the secret route there or where we've always been.
—Rebecca Solnit |
| | Translation is a dangerous and indispensable art.
—Adrienne Rich |
| | To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
—Edward Weston |
| | Time to do nothing at all is the only time when I can see what I should be doing the rest of the time.
—Pico Iyer |
| | There won’t be anything we won’t know. But there will be no one thinking about it.
—Neal Gabler |
| | The world sometimes seems to be made more and more of stuff we're not supposed to look at
—Rebecca Solnit |
| | The modern imagination has been trimmed to fit the TV screen; unable to ‘imagine the real,’ unable to get out of the box.
—James Hillman |
| | Tenderness wrestles with all I know of history.
—Adrienne Rich |
| | Things are getting too abstract
—Temple Grandin |
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