"Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Art Quotes #Staying Quotes #Limitation Quotes

“The snake will always bite back.”
“I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.”
“I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.”
“Few artists can afford artistic temperament.”
“I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you to do is answer the phone. Nobody wants you to think about anything new or use your brain or make anything interesting because everything important has already been made. America is over; it's done being brilliant.Everything genius has already been built, like all the great works of art have already been produced.”
“The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.”
“You broke my heart, Trish Stratus, now I'm gonna break you!”
“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”

Source : Walter Bargen (2009). “Days Like this are Necessary: New and Selected Poems”, Bkmk Pr/Umkc

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