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As long as I live, I will have control over my being." Talk about a woman who was ahead of her time.


Artemisia Gentileschi (


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Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.


Steve Yzerman


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People regard art too highly, and history not enough


John Irving


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He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes.


Jon Meacham


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Think about it. People in the sixteenth century - not to mention in Jesus's time - didn't look like this: perfect skin, perfect hairdos, spotless clothes. These are people who went to the bathroom in the street, for God's sake. There's no way they looked like this. But that's how we're going to remember them. Our alabaster past. When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened - how we all became so imperfect.


Julia David Levithan


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Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness. BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011


Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox


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Magical activity is a kind of dynamo supplying the mechanisms of practical life with the emotional current that drives it. Hence, magic is a necessity of every sort and condition of man, and is actually found in every healthy society.


Herbert Read


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The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The Blind Man. In his statement he emphasized that the act of choice was sufficient to justify it as a creative art. Placing it in such a way that its normal use was disguised caused a new reality for the object to be invented. To the criticism that it was rude he replied, logically enough,"How could this object be acceptable when displayed in a plumber's shop window and yet be immoral anywhere else?


Neville Weston


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Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing as ideal subject-matter.


Neville Weston


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On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.


Alex Shakar


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