"I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it."

-- Ellen Gallagher

#Believe Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Bird Quotes

“If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.”
“Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.”

Source : Bette Lord (1984). “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.”
“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.”
“I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.”

Source : 'Art' (1914) pt. 3 ch. 3
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
“We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.”

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