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• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery
• Il faut etre leger comme l'oiseau, et non comme la plume.
  [One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.] -- Paul Valery...
• Achilles cannot defeat the tortoise if he thinks of space and time -- Paul Valery
• As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he see
  but what he sees is primarily what he looks at. -- Andre Malraux...
• Visits always give pleasure: if not on arrival, then on the departure.
  -- Edouard Le Berquier, "Pensees des Autre...
• What's the difference between a man and E.T.? E.T. phoned home.
• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. -- Paul Valery
• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense!
  To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow....