"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."

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Sol LeWitt

#Art Quotes #Literature Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.”
“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.”

Source : Andrew Lam (2005). “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora”, Heyday
“We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.”
“Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.”

Source : Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”
“In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.”
“I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.”
“I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.”
“It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.”

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