There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?
And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
True singing is a different breath, about nothing.
As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.
We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable.
My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.
Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.
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