"Art is the god you have not seen."

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Source : Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.1, Yale University Press

Mary Butts

#Art Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“Laughter can bring a new perspective.”

Source : "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.
“Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.141, University of Georgia Press
“Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.”

Source : Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books
“We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.”
“THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on the bed, glaring at the wall. â€œThank God,â€ he says, pressing his forehead to the door. â€œI was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to â€¦ smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff.”
“What we really are trying to do day to day now is to wake up every day and think about more activist behavior - what we can do to move the needle on the climate crisis, whether it is calling legislators or trying to win the conversation with someone who might not see the issues the way do.”

Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com
“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”
“Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.”

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