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    The difference between a photograph and even the most realistic painting—say, one of Courbet’s landscapes—is that in the latter there has been selection, emphasis and some discreet distortion. The painter’s deep instinctive feeling for mass and force has rearranged everything.
    Gerald Branan (1894–1987)

    Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect.
    —Gerald Branan (1894–1987)