"To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production."

-- Susan Sontag

#Artist Quotes #Hands Quotes #Eras Quotes

“A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.”
“Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.”
“If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"”
“Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killerâ€™s mind, how he operates. They donâ€™t read, which is rightfully so. If they have a life to live, theyâ€™re not going to spend a lot of time reading up on killers if thatâ€™s not in their interest. Certainly, Serial Killers and killers have the advantage in that they use the element of surpriseâ€¦uhâ€¦darkness, and such things as thisâ€¦”
“Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without our being childhgood neighbors, I am certain that my husband woud never have found me." Michael's gaze lit with admiration, and he lifted his glass in her direction. "At some point I would have realized what I was missing, darling. An I would have come looking for you.”
“Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.”
“A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.”
“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.”

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