Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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This world of imagination is fancy-free
and violently opposed to common sense.
~ Mark Rothko
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
~ Mark Rothko
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What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God — who knows all that can be known — seems powerless to change.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. We assert that only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
~ Mark Rothko
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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