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"La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection"

"Sing louder aroundTo the bells' cheerful sound,While our sports shall be seenOn the ecchoing green."

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

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🇺🇸Henry Ford

Business

"I've never made a flight in an airplane, and I don't know that I'm particularly anxious to. I would, though, like to take a trip in a . Bring one out here some time, won't you, Doctor Eckener, and give me a ride?"

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism."

"Transcript of an interview with Alan Moore on BBC Radio 4"

"'Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously'."

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

"You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."-Allison"

"I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense..."

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🇫🇷Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Literature

1900–1944

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."

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🇺🇸Don Miller (author)

Business

1923–1993

"The problem with Christian culture is we think of love as a commodity. We use it like money."

"The 2nd of April at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years."

"I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives."

"Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse."

"I love all the series I’ve done pretty much equally.I haven’t done a single series that I have been embarrassed by. Some of the movies are better than others."

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."

"For me the art world is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future."

"Fantasy is a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so the most potent."

"Painting is an act, a sequence of movements one bears within oneself, whose source is one's inner being."

"This is the theropod. Indeed, excepting perhaps Brontosaurus, this is the public's favourite dinosaur, having fought King Kong for the forced favor of Fay Wray and smashed Tokyo in the guise of Godzilla."

"There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement."

"A true graphic novel can be very satisfying and it really is a form of story telling that is not a book and not a movie."

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🇨🇦Philip Guston

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1980

"I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum."

"Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once."

"The Bases of the New Creation and the Reasons Why It Is Misunderstood."

"No matter what we choose, our unwavering stance is to enhance the safety of nuclear power generation in the country."

"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected."

"Beyond the Visible - The Art of Odilon Redon" - MoMA exhibition"

"Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings."

"I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art."

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

"Extract from Elidor by Alan Garner, including illustrations by Keeping"

"...I have seen the future of implausible plotting, and his name is Clive Barker."

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🇫🇷Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art

Impressionism

1841–1919

"The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination, will be the greatest!"

"I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream."

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🇬🇧Oyinkan Braithwaite

Literature

b. 1988

"As an individual I’m attracted to strong female characters – my characters have always been people who own themselves. Even if they’re strongly doing something wrong, they’ve always been powerful people."

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