There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff … — Barbara Kruger

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

Barbara KrugerArtist · American

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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. — Henry Ward Beecher
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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