"To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing."

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Source : "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, Gallimard, Paris, p. 571 (the book gathers almost all Arp's writings in prose and some important poetry), 1966.

Hans Arp

#Joy Quotes #Littles Quotes #Little Things Quotes

“I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.”
“It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.”
“I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.”
“Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.”
“I realized two things from an early age - I was insane and had some kind of comedic thing going on. My brain was wired to think about things in terms of how funny they were.”
“Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.”
“Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.”
“The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.”

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