#intimacy

…I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn’t seem to suffice, not really—rather’s it that I have been drawn into the orbit of a painting, have allowed myself to be pulled into its sphere by casual attraction deepening to something more compelling. I have felt the energy and life of the painting’s will; I have been held there, instructed. And the overall effect, the result of looking and looking into it’s brimming surface as long as I could look, is love, by which I mean a sense of tenderness toward experience, of being held within an intimacy with the things of the world. ↗

— Mark Doty

#intimacy #love #art

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky... ↗

— John Geddes

#intimacy #night-sky #poetry #religion #religion

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#love #death

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#because #better #brilliant #character #chase

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. ↗

— James Dobson

#couples #eludes #expect #find #i

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. ↗

— David Walliams

#bit #book #characters #depth #emotional

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. ↗

— Fred Ward

#comes #dealing #deeper #deeper level #ed

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it. ↗

— George Weinberg

#best way #demand #interestingly #intimacy #promote

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#intimacy

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. ↗

— Joe Williams

#aesthetic #almost #between #bringing #forget