"Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing."

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Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press

Adrienne Monnier

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“Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
“An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.”
“Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'”
“I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself.Â I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: â€˜Excuse me, it was all a dream,â€™ and by that time I may have found one who will say: â€˜Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.â€™”
“No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.”
“It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.”
“I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment”
“In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.”

Source : "Life is beautiful" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2006.

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