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“Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.”

“Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a human being which, because of ignorance and the lack of printing presses, had become exaggerated. He maintained that religions served their purpose; some people depended on them all their lives to make them honest. Others did not need to be so held in line. But subjection to any church was a reflection on strength and character. You should be able to get from yourself what you had to go go church for.”

Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

“Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.”

Giving Persons Play Political Asks Stuff Lines Simple Party Audience Poet Reflection Standing Blame Excuse Bunch Opposition Poetry Is Fascism Fascists You Like It Good Poetry Time Poetry

Author:John Cusack

“I feel more meditative when I don't have a home. I like being put into a new place and making friends with people from a different culture, trying to find the lines of communication. It's a lot of reflection of myself and seeing new scenery.”

People Feels Trying Different Home Culture Lines Seeing Communication Reflection Scenery Different Cultures New Places Making Friends Lines Of Communication

Author:Le1f

“The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between geographies, languages, familiarity, and the like. Cinema is art and art, they say, is a reflection of life and society, so the way we tell our stories is the main differentiator for me.”

People World Way Art Stories Together Language Lines Reflection Great Things Cinema Geography Familiarity Binders Reflections Of Life

Author:Priyanka Chopra

“The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.”

People Thinking Reason Artist Lines Our Lives Wall Reflection Reason Why Ems

Author:El-P

“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.”

World Life Able Lines Consciousness Objects Evolution Reflection Consequence Raises Depth Zone Spheres Flash Psychics Transforming Ascent World Life Evolution Of Life

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.”

Should Littles Government Lines Liberty Too Much Danger Reflection Extremes Defined Melancholy Divides Exposed Too Much Power

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.”

Kids Lines Loneliness Fine Solitude Reflection Fine Lines Loneliness And Solitude

Author:Brad Mehldau

“Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.”

Lines Dark Fields Reflection Snow Orange Crow Pumpkin Beads Grids Abacus

Author:John J. Geddes

“He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.”

Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)

“At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.”

Night Black Lines Sky Streets New York Building Perspective Scene Reflection Hung Veils Violet Glowing Props Dazzle Festive

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.”

Ifs Stills Lines Dark Sun Reflection Mirrors Clean Glasses Shirts Rising Smoking Traffic Advancing Procession Dark Glasses

Author:Iain Sinclair