"We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art."

-- Takashi Murakami

#Art Quotes #Want Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.”

Source : M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.70, OUP Oxford
“Nobody actually played tennis in my family.”
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
“We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.”
“I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.”

Source : Jeri Smith-Ready (2009). “Wicked Game”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.”
“I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?”
“We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.”

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