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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. ↗

— Ad Reinhardt

#artist #connected #dozen #even #every

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ↗

— Burton Rascoe

#out #staring #understand #wife #window

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#been #deployed #developing #itself #looking

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#august #before #could #course #due

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#buddhist #central #compassion #core #fact

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#brain #humor #macbeth #shakespeare #thinking

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. ↗

— Tom Waits

#musician #musician

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#crew #film #films #fixed #four

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned. ↗

— Lou Rawls

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