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Extracted Quotes

Lines on pulling ore, words, and meaning out of raw material.

These extracted quotes move between literal mining, an artist recalling ochre pigments pulled from Roussillon quarries, and a sober historical note about the Inquisition's confessions obtained after torture had already ended. It touches themes near Color quotes.

When I learned that near Roussillon there were ochre quarries and mines from which was extracted the ore which produced pigments in all the warm hues of the color wheel, I had a substantial artistic link to this region beyond...

Quotes by Susan Vreeland

To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was...

Quotes by Simon Hoggart

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

Quotes by Ivan Krastev

If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a...

Quotes by Fei-Fei Li

Beyond Quotes

In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute the sauce, but the proportion of liquid you add should not be so high that you wash away the extracted flavor you're aiming...

Quotes by Daniel Boulud

British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not bestowed by the state, but extracted from it by force.

Quotes by Ash Sarkar

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within,...

Quotes by Ansel Adams

Frequently Asked Questions

What different meanings of 'extracted' appear here?
The word covers literal mining, like ochre pigments pulled from quarries near Roussillon, alongside figurative uses, such as extracting state assets or extracting names from a body of articles.
Does one quote reference a historical event?
Yes, one quote makes a sober, factual point about the Inquisition, noting that confessions were only counted as freely given once obtained after the torture itself had ended.
Is that historical reference meant to be graphic?
No, it's a brief, non-graphic observation about how coerced confessions were technically framed as voluntary, used to make a point about credibility rather than to dwell on violence.
Is there a quote about extracting data or names?
Yes, one imagines a computer extracting the names quoted across AI-related articles, using the exercise to highlight how rarely women are among those quoted on the subject.
What other topics relate to extracted quotes?
See Color quotes for more on the pigment and art angle, or Detail quotes for lines about close observation.

Elsewhere the word turns to state assets stripped like oil, or names pulled from AI coverage to reveal who gets quoted and who doesn't. See related lines in Detail quotes or Eye quotes.