"I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination."

-- Alan Watts

#Ego Quotes #Skins Quotes #Bags Quotes

“It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love -- I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.”
“I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.”
“If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.”
“I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.”

Source : Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (1987). “Odilon Redon: pastels”, George Braziller
“I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.”
“When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.”
“By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.”

Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

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