"There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter."

-- James Anthony Froude

#Solitude Quotes

“The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com
“Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
“No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.”
“You are not your buttocks.”
“Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.”
“I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.”

Source : Ian Frazier (2000). “On the Rez”, p.4, Macmillan
“Titanic got 14 nominations one per lifeboat.”
“Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.”

Source : Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.22

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