#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

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#beautiful #desolation #hard #i #i think

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#birth #born #december #died #eighteenth

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent. ↗

— John Prescott

#billion #buy #desperately #discount #given

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#around #better #billions #contempt #contemptuous

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 the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #doing #doubt #hand #hesitation

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

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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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

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. ↗

— Kate Smith

#enhances #intensifies #meaning #mood #music