"Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with."

-- Nelson Shanks

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“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the worldâ€”impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.”
“We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.”
“When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist explained to me that staying with the bodies that night made me fearless. He said that it made me an 'emotional exhibitionist' and told me never to let people convince me that I was weird for speaking with clarity and passion.”
“Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.”

Source : Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1986). “The Marriage of Maria Braun”, p.202, Rutgers University Press
“Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. - Manth Vow”

Source : William Nicholson (2012). “Firesong”, p.209, Egmont UK
“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
“People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".”
“No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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