#ma

Seduction is an art that is tested in the mirror ↗

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

#romaticism #seduction #art

It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#ethological-epicentre #new-york-city #snow-dark-sky #art

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either. ↗

— Katherine Catmull

#birds #dances #dancing #human #magic

Tata profeţeşte, în continuare, aghezmuind cu pensula de vopsea. Zice că dacă au desfiinţat Şcoala Blajului, azi-mâine - or să desfiinţeze şi Biserica Unită, cine să-i împiedice, ba chiar o să le sară în ajutor Sfânta Biserică Ortodoxă, crezînd că astfel are să întoarcă la turmă oiţele rătăcite la 1700... Mai zice tata ce-a mai zis, că vrem, nu vrem, greco-catolicii ardeleni ne-au învăţat carte - din păcate nu ăi pe noi, Basarabenii, căzuţi sub Ruşi. Ne ţine tata, pentru a nu ştiu câta oară, conferinţă cu Şcoala Ardeleană şi zice că, de n-ar fi fost papistaşii Maior, Micu, Şincai, şi în ziua de azi ar fi moţăit Românul la umbră turcească, neînstare să se apere măcar de muştele care-i intrau în gură; ar fi pirotit şi-acum pe ceardac, pufăind din narghilè şi horpăind, în somn, din cahfè... ↗

— Paul Goma

#goma #rusi #scoala-ardeleana #art

Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rushed for time, toward what end no one asked. Their cupidity and self-love were no worse than anyone else's, but their many experiences' having taught them so little irked Lou. One hated tourists, another southerners; another despised immigrants. Even dying, they still held themselves in highest regard. Lou would have to watch herself. For this way of thinking began to look like human nature--as if each person of two or three billion would spend his last vital drop to sustain his self-importance. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#human-nature #age

Change is the only constant in the universe. ↗

— Jim Fargiano

#guidance #happiness-life #spiritual #change

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art. ↗

— Anthony Marais

#art

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#film #humanity #philosophy #beauty

Merlin seeks assistance from Pigwiggen, the only one of Arthur's knights who is also a fairy, and they unite their enchantments to move the British Court to Turkestan. Lively end to Act One. ↗

— Davies Robertson

#gibberish #hilarious #humanities #lyre-of-orpheus #art

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. ↗

— G.H. Hardy

#mathematics #art