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“I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.”

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Howard Jacobson is a British author born on August 25, 1942. His works are known for their humor and satire, and he has won multiple literary awards, including the Man Booker Prize. more

“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”

People Ifs Body Lines Rooms Groups Influence Streets Produce Limits Impression Setting Settings Midst Portraits Living Room Totality

Author:Medardo Rosso

“A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.”

Made Lions Lambs

Author:Giorgos Seferis

“Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.”

“I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.”

Ifs Want Feelings Desire Hate I Hate Ill

Book:Room at the top

Source: Room at the top

“The eye seems to be responding to something living.”

Seems Eye Responding

Author:William Baziotes

“As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.”

Matter Subjects Painting Backgrounds Subject Matter Elusive Unclear

Book:William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition

Source: William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition

“I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Feels Firsts Looks Two Real Beautiful Certain Difficult Clear Four Mystery Shapes Moon Objectives Awful Tonight Unreasonable Geometric Geometric Shapes

Author:William Baziotes

“There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.”

Artist Imagine Fool Unconscious Collaboration Primitive Robinson Crusoe

Author:William Baziotes

“Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.”

Men World Looks Dream Earth Walks Sky Streets Poet Mirrors Dust

Author:William Baziotes

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