"The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality."

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Robert M. Pirsig

#Inspirational Quotes #Memories Quotes #Past Quotes

“I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.”
“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.”
“Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,”
“I feel stronger, but physically I feel like I'm falling apart. Every day I get a new pain or ache and think, 'Oh, that will be a hip replacement in a couple of years'.”
“If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.”

Source : "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.
“We also knew we definitely wanted to infuse into the narrative the relation of women at different ages with motherhood, their relationship with their babies versus their partners', their overall "need" to have children, their fears and projections on their children, etc. All of this we put into a pot, if you will, and simmered for a while until we had what made sense to us.”
“The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.”

Source : Henry Moore (1968). “Henry Spencer Moore”
“As in, I wouldn't know normal if it marched up and poked me in the eye.”

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