"Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen."

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Wayne Thiebaud

#Way Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Common Quotes

“So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.”
“Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.”
“What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic”
“The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.”
“Itâ€™s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I donâ€™t want to ever be didactic, but if thereâ€™s something I do want to say, itâ€™s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Childrenâ€™s novels are about getting a grip.”
“If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.”
“My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.”
“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”

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