"Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises."

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Source : Egon Friedell (1953). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Introduction. book 1. Renaissance and reformation, from the black death to the thirty years' war”

Egon Friedell

#Art Quotes #Reality Quotes #Light Quotes

“If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.”

Source : Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.13, Moody Publishers
“You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before.”
“It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
“We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.”
“The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.300, A&C Black
“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”
“Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.”
“Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”

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