"Each painting is a plunge into the unknown."

-- Joseph Plaskett

#Painting Quotes #Plunge Quotes

“That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.”
“If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.”
“I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.”
“No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.”
“The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”

Source : In Bohemia In Bohemia
“Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.”
“I think there's a very fundamental urge to create a safe space, a home; most animals have that impulse, and humans certainly do - with some exceptions, like nomadic people who perhaps don't feel the need to settle in quite that way. But most of us do want to have space, somewhere we feel secure and where we repeatedly return. Somewhere we can sleep without fear. And there's nothing wrong with that desire. It's completely understandable. It only becomes ugly when that creation of a safe space involves making an enclosure from which other people are kept out.”
“Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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