The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape.
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The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.
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