"Change art to include yourself."

-- Joseph Kosuth

“It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.”

Source : Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”
“Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.”
“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.”
“If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier”

Source : Gene Wilder (2010). “Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art”, p.149, Macmillan
“It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here”
“My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.”
“No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.”
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”

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