"Well, you don't see everything at once. When you look at a room, an object, or a person, you look at different parts and the brain puts it all together as a picture. Whistler said that nature copies art, and, in a way, people don't see things until they're shown. A lot of people have said they never noticed any of this until they saw my paintings. They've lived in New York all their lives and its always been there, but people simply didn't see it because their eyes were not attuned to it. People found the Impressionist paintings very shocking when they first saw them because the color wasn't what they were accustomed to seeing. Now, with color photography, we find that the Impressionists were absolutely right. But at that time the public was walking around in a brown haze."

-Richard Estes

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“I saw a couple that had been escorted out and they were confused as well, and the girl was crying, so I said ‘Why are you crying? and she said ‘I already voted for McCain, I’m a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn’t look right,’” Elborno said. “They were handpicking these people and they had nothing to go off of, besides the way the people looked.”

Government Trap #1: The belief that governments perform socially useful functions that deserve your support.

Government Trap #2: The belief that you have a duty to obey laws.

Government Trap #3: The belief that the government can be counted upon to carry out a social reform you favor.

Government Trap #4: The fear that the government is so powerful that it can prevent you from being free.

KEEP YOUR WITS ABOUT YOU.