"History, a distillation of rumour." — Thomas Carlyle

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• The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates… — Edward Steichen
• With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of… — Unknown Author
• Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror… — Unknown Author
• A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story. — Chip Kidd
• This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and… — Benjamin Haydon
• I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time,… — Jessica Zafra
• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer… — Don DeLillo
• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
• There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity -… — Will Cotton
• History: A distillation of rumor. — Thomas Carlyle
• Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for… — Charles de Lint

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