"I push throughthe wind to the north-facing window and stand before it. 'I will bring her back!' I shout into the darkness. I do this because I know Rhauk will be listening."

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Source : Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.151, A&C Black

Marianne Curley

#Wind Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Listening Quotes

“What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things I learned was that most people assume artists know one thing and one thing only - that they were idiot savants. I found very quickly that most artists were very informed and very aware of what was happening in the world around them. So all of those things go together, especially for earthworks. And at that time there was such an intense interest in American art. So there was a great deal of attention paid to where it was going.”
“Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.”
“Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.”

Source : Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson”
“I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.”
“I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.”
“The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.”
“True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.”
“Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.”

Source : Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.199, Shambhala Publications

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