"If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse."

-- Odd Nerdrum

#Art Quotes #Horse Quotes #Fall Quotes

“My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.”
“Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.”
“I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.”
“To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.”
“A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.”
“When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming.”
“But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.”

Source : Anne Frasier (2012). “Hush”, p.21, Theresa Weir
“Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam

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