The gods have been good to me… they really have…
– Charles Bukowski from an Interview in Bukowski Reads Bukowski
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not…” — Art of Quotation
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them?” – Pablo Picasso, Spanish, painter, sculptor, printmaker, draftsman
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Guy de Maupassant — The Vale of Soul-Making
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. ― Guy de Maupassant
Thomas Carlyle – On Books
In books lies the soul of the whole past time when the articulate audible voice of the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream
– Inscription on the Mitchell Library building, Sydney New South Wales, Australia from The Hero as Man of Letters by Thomas Carlyle, 1840
Tristan Tzara – On Writing
‘Vigour and thirst, emotion in response to the formation which is neither to be seen nor to be explained… a will to the word: a being on its feet, an image, a construction that is unique and fervent, of a deep colour, intensity, communion with life.’
Tristan Tzara – in The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Poetry: 1820-1950, Edited, Translated and with Introductions on the poets by William Rees
Louise Bourgeois – On Childhood
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
Louise Bourgeois in Destruction of the Father Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews 1923-1997.
Fernando Pessoa — The Vale of Soul-Making
I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses… If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that’s why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And […]
“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors.” — Art of Quotation
“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors.”
Epictetus, Philosopher
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.” — Art of Quotation
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation – an investigation of my own life.” Neil Simon, 1927-2018, playwright, Pulitzer Prize, Goodbye in 2018
“You live and you suffer. To hell with it. You want a pizza?” — Art of Quotation
“You live and you suffer. To hell with it. You want a pizza?” — Antonio Ricci, The Bicycle Thieves, 1948, Italy. Portrayed by Lamberto Maggiorani. Foreign Film Academy Award 1949. Director Vittorio de Sica, 50 Greatest Films of All Time – British Film Institute more Roger Ebert Review: … Such films stand outside time. […]
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