"Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery."

-- Walter Darby Bannard

#Art Quotes #Loss Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?”
“Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice”
“I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.”
“I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.”
“Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.”

Source : Simon Patrick (1848). “The Heart's Ease, Or, A Remedy Against All Troubles: A Consolatory Discourse, Particularly Directed to Those who Have Lost Their Friends and Dear Relations : to which is Added Two Papers Printed in the Time of the Plague, 1665”, p.3
“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you”
“I think that people find that's a fresh look at a relationship between two best friends, between two soul mates, that people haven't really seen in this particular way. So that's definitely something that people are noticing.”
“It's like you're organically developing yourself, moving out, metamorphosing into other forms depending on where you are, what you're doing at the time, how you want to play on things.”

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