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“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
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“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011 
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“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”
Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin
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“In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.”
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“A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.”
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“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”
Source : "Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.
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“Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.”
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“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”
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“My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.”
Source : Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.
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“We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.”
