Quotes
Authors
Lisa Gerrard

"It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!"

-- Lisa Gerrard

#Responsibility Quotes #Desire Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.”
“I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.”
“And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.”
“A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, â€œThat man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!”
“Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.”

Source : "Five reasons Greg Hunt may not be the best minister in the world" by Michael Slezak, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2016.
“In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues still to come into being. It begins with the darkening of the understanding, continues with the excitement of the imagination, stimulates desire in the heart, and culminates in an act of the will”
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.”

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