"When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it."

-- Guillermo del Toro

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Intuition Quotes

“Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.”
“Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 02, 2017
“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”
“I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.”
“I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.”
“Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.”
“I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you can see Terry Pratchett in every book. I like doing it. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it.”
“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.”

Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.130, Hawthorne Books

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