"What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness."

-- Ivo Andric

“The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.”

Source : "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.
“And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say. .”
“I donâ€™t have a problem baring my emotions in music. Thatâ€™s one of the reasons Iâ€™m glad to have music in my life. Iâ€™m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.”
“Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.”

Source : Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.14, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Iâ€™ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.”
“The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
“I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.”
“To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?”

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