The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.
If my last name were Marriagenowsky, and I met another girl with that name, guess what I’d want to do? That’s right—get divorced.
Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.
Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.
They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.
Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn’t a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.
Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.
To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader."- Capt. Bligh(ret.)
…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.
I don’t need another ‘adversity builds character’ speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where’s your adversity?” Darren raised a brow. “I’m looking at it.
There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.
Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.
The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.
Time is like a barber, it shears you first and then shows you your own face in the mirror. (Marrying Nusrat)
