"Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total."

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Jean Tinguely

#Art Quotes #Communication Quotes #Reality Quotes

“A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.”

Source : "Q&A: Richard Hell Has Gone to Heaven". Interview with Scott Martelle, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2013.
“The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.”
“A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.”
“Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.”
“Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“Thereâ€™s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out Youâ€™d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security â€œbullet”
“Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.”

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