"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."

-- Kathy Acker

#Book Quotes #People Quotes

“You are as you are, an indescribable message on the air.”
“In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.”

Source : José Clemente Orozco (1983). “Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice”
“Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.”
“That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others”

Source : Vikas Swarup (2008). “Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often”
“Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.”

Source : "What we learned from 5 million books". TEDxBoston Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.
“There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.”
“The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.”

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