"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."

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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."

Robert Creeley, American Poet

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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

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"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

James Laughlin, American Poet

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"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."

John Polkinghorne, British Physicist

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"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."

Jason Mraz, American Musician

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"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

Arto Lindsay, American Musician

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"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."

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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

Dinah Sheridan, English Actress

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"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."

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"On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright."

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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."

"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."

"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."

"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."

"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

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"I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."

"On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright."

"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality."

"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."

"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."

"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."