"... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions."

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Susanne Katherina Langer

#Art Quotes #Memories Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.”
“I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We've got to beat whoever is in our way.”
“Dreams can come true, but you have to go for it.”

Source : "Serby’s Sunday Q&A With . . . Johan Santana". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. September 28, 2008.
“Safeguard the health of both body and soul.”
“That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.”
“Control your fate or somebody else will”
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
“Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.”

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