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• The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Roles, Currents

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to side-step a crisis. Rather, the more monstrous the crises, the more I am tempted to rush at it, grasp it by the horns and man-oeuvre it until it gives me what I want

  Verghese Kurien

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

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• If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

  Kate Atkinson

  Life, People, Damnation

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