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"To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!" - Andre Breton"To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made... more
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"Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye" - Thomas Jefferson"Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows... more
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"Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball." - Patrick Leigh Fermor"Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise... more
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"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." - Marcel Duchamp"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these... more
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"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in... more
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche." - George Crumb"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the... more
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"Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety." - Edgar Allan Poe"Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very... more
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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists" - Franklin D. Roosevelt"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly... more
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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." - Charles Bukowski
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you... more
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"Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good." - Mariska Hargitay
"I owe it all to little chocolate donuts." - John Belushi
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it:... more
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"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills." - Benoit Mandelbrot
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite... more
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"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?" - Pablo Picasso
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso... more
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"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy." - Marian Anderson
"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?" - Camille Paglia
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have... more
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"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known." - William Falconer
"The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it." - Noah Webster
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions,... more
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"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values." Jose Ortega y Gasset
"He who refuses to learn deserves extinction." - Rabbi Hillel
Original: 36"h x 48"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values." Jose Ortega... more
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"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything." - Emma Thompson
Original: 36"h x 48"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from... more
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"There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are" - Joseph Joubert
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent... more
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"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens... more
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"Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists." - Marshall McLuhan
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious... more
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"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control." - J. William Fulbright
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon... more
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