illumination quotes

Painters who arenotcolourists produce illumination and not painting.

-Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Euge'  ne
  The Journal of Euge'  ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948).

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsöfor support rather than illumination.

-Lang, Andrew
  Speech. Quoted in  Alan L Mackay  The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

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