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“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”
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“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.”
Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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“People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.”
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“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press
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“No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.”
Source : A. C. Green (1994). “Victory”, Creation House
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“Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.”
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“When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.”
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“I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.”
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“Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!”
Source : "The Race for Rome". Book by Dan Kurzman, 1975.
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“Many states favor joint custody.”
