#cent

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. ↗

— Michael Graves

#around #been #centered #dialogue #idea

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#aspect #centuries #come #during #evolved

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed. ↗

— Michael Chang

#bit #doctors #flexibility #healed #i

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#concurred #could #court #decision #four

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#deep #grievance #how #hurt #i

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#always #artist #authentic #bad #decent

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#breaks #decent #earn #helping #income

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#form #me #thinking #writing