"Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Mother Quotes #Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.”
“The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.”
“Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.24, Grove Press
“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. â€¦ The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.239, Bantam
“It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.”

Source : "Woman Through the Ages: Volume 2". Book by Emil Reich, p. 38, 1908.
“I'll kill for you, give up everything i own for you...but i won't give you up.”
“To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. . . . No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.”
“If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.”

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