"The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own."

-- Brassai

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Isabell, she treads so lightly, floating in her gipsy dresses Even as her words cut deep, I can't deny the truth in them On the phone, she talks a lot, and me, I listen hopelessly So directionless, I head into oblivion And then I decide to give another random memory To remind her of the first time we sang out to the sea Oh Isabell, you always understood me Please Isabell, forgive me now”
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing
“My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press
“The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
“...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?”

Source : M. J. Porteus, R.D. Blackmore (2014). “Lorna Doone: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.93, Crimson Romance

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