"The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Drawing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Receiving Quotes

“Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.”
“Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.”
“Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.”
“The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.”
“We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.”
“I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film I can't sit still.”
“There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.49, Canongate Books

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