"your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichÃ©s because clichÃ©s are sociable."

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Source : Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

Carol Bly

#Lonely Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #People Quotes

“When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.”
“Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.”
“Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“Fashion you can BUY, but style you POSSESS.”
“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.”
“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.”
“Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?”

Source : Quoted in Briefe, Aufzeichnungen und Aphorismen (2 vols,1920), translated by Chipp in his Theories of Modern Art (1968).
“Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'”

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