"Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it."

-- Gerhard Richter

#Art Quotes #Transcendental Quotes #Mediums Quotes

“The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.”
“Ah well, I suppose it has come to thisâ€¦ Such is life!”

Source : Ned Kelly's last words before he was hanged in the Melbourne Jail, November 11, 1880.
“I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are.”
“If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.”

Source : "Buzz Bissinger’s Trip". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2012.
“Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.”
“The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.”
“I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.”
“To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.”

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