"With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead."

-- George Crabbe

#Silent Quotes #Awe Quotes #Walks Quotes

“I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.”
“The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.”
“Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted”

Source : Max Ernst, Karin von Maur, Tate Gallery, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1991). “Max Ernst: a retrospective”
“To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.”
“From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.”
“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”
“The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.”
“Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.”

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