"When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives."

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Source : Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.42, Oxford University Press

Pat Schneider

#Creativity Quotes #Artist Quotes #Mourning Quotes

“The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com
“Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be to realise as sacred art, anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.”
“The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.' The handkerchief paused. 'I could tell you apart from the beginning. You're quite different to each other, you know.' Perhaps he could tell, in the obvious ways. The odd one was Rose; the other odd one was Briony.”
“I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.”
“It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.”
“I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.”
“I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.”
“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”

Source : Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.70, Bantam

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