"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.”
“It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'”
“There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.”
“When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.”
“Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan
“True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.”
“Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.”

Source : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Squire's Tale”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It would be horrible to live with someone who didn't like the same things you like.”

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