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"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

"The office' is a cemetery of dreams."

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."

"Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted."

"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

"Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers."

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."


"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."


"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."


"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."


"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."
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