"The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come."

-- Rumer Godden

#Thinking Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Going Away Quotes

“An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and the viewer, so it's close to what a musical composer does, or a poet or a dancer. It is coming out of one's inner being.”
“In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.”
“The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.”
“We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.”

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.40, Macmillan
“Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.”
“We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.”
“It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.”
“I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.”

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