"Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth."

-- Marcel Duchamp

#Art Quotes #Existence Quotes

“It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.”
“More and more, money is becoming a religion.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Can I believe in that God too?”
“Today, you talk to kids about books and they almost want to run away because they've got computers, iPads and all that, while we had to actually sit down and crack the books open and go line by line to try to learn all that stuff.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.”

Source : FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Apr 24, 2014
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”
“Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.”

Source : Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.43, Vintage
“Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.”

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