Elizabeth Barton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.
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Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
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I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.
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The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.
-- Elizabeth Barton
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Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.
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