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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock…
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Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures…
— Constantin Brancusi
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Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
— Kim Cattrall
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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's…
— Helen Fisher
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A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to…
— Wynn Bullock
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and…
— Yayoi Kusama
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I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed…
— Ana Mendieta
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There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by…
— Giorgio Vasari
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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion…
— Alberto Giacometti
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The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is,…
— Elliott Erwitt
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As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses…
— Bruno Schulz
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Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
— Michael Heizer
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