#nearly

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant. ↗

— Christina Romer

#estimates #gdp #highly #increase #nearly

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#directly #evoke #institutions #might #nearly

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom. ↗

— John Sexton

#believe #darkroom #doing #even #found

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#best #came #life #me #nearly

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#anybody #car #else #faster #going

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#does #every #go #hot #light

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. ↗

— Edwin Land

#impossible #manifestly #nearly #project #undertake

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ↗

— William Cobbett

#independent #nearly #poor #very

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ↗