-
“Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.”
-
“I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?”
Source : Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape
-
“Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it”
-
“I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.”
-
“Suspect all of your favorite sentences.”
-
“Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.”
-
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”
Source : "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.
-
“Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.”
Source : Judy Chicago (2007). “The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation”, Merrell Pub Limited
