"I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow."

-- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

#Reality Quotes #Parent Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.”

Source : Michael Tippett, Covent Garden Gallery (1977). “A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett”, London : Schott
“I believe there is some kind of magic that comes just from looking at somebody. In the beginning, I called it "Genius" in a very cynical way. Then I started to look at real geniuses in history and all of them have the same expression, of something very bitter. It's bitter because they have this kind of knowledge that they cannot share. They don't have the time or energy to deal with other people.”
“It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.”

Source : Romare Bearden (1991). “Romare Bearden: The Human Condition : [exhibition] October 3-October 26, 1991”
“Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.”
“I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.”

Source : "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.
“The Psychological Recession is the cluster of feelings that the present is really scary and the future will likely be worse. It comes from the sense you have no control over what's happening to you and you don't see a way to get your life back under control. It's the feeling that life is unfair; you paid your dues, you worked hard, and you ended up naked and vulnerable. There is no comfort to be found in the dismissal of the Psychological Recession as being just an idea; it is a real phenomenon with real consequences, all of them bad.”
“At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all lifeâ€™s many losses buried in those sands.”

Source : Thomas H. Cook (2012). “The Crime of Julian Wells”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.”

Source : Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.5, Anchor

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