Bobbie Ann Mason famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.
-- Bobbie Ann Mason

#Fashion #Stories #Grudge
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
-- Bobbie Ann Mason

#Cat #One Day #Counting
I donâ€™t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. [â€¦] I donâ€™t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
-- Bobbie Ann Mason

#Quiet #Rebellion #Angry
I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.
-- Bobbie Ann Mason

#Distance #Ideas #Flying
I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
-- Bobbie Ann Mason

#Quiet #Rebellion #Corners

By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?
The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.
For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films Iâ€™ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Bobbie Ann Mason famous quotes

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