"I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Jonathan Meades

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Space Quotes

“As to the black dwarfs, they wouldn't allow anyone to look into them, because what is inside them is truly horrible. That is why they want everything on Earth to be as black and dark as they are themselves.”

Source : "The Three Candles of Little Veronica: The Story of a Child’s Soul in this World and the Other". Book by Manfred Kyber, 1975.
“The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.”

Source : Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company
“For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.”
“Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.”
“If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.”
“There is no avoidance in delay.”
“I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.”

Source : Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.189, Head of Zeus
“Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.”

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