To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions. — Robert Irwin

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Maybe that had been his plan all along, or maybe not. But one thing's for certain- now that I had said it, it was his plan. — Neal Shusterman

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Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. — Thom Mayne

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People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful. — Michael Robotham

There is no wing like meaning — Wallace Stevens

Never blame what you are on what someone else is. — Wes Fesler

. And it especially cannot endure when powerful groups in that society seek at every turn to undermine and destroy its very being. The threats to democracy are not always from enemies abroad. They can come from those within who espouse the language of democracy and use the liberties afforded them by democratic institutions to undermine the substance of democracy. Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable. — Eric D. Weitz

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness. — Townsend Whelen

The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow ... We keep it nice and simple. — Emily Browning

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. — David Bailey