#thou

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#abuse #choice #good #had #sexually

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#buy #collector #director #his #i

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ↗

— George Eliot

#had #hear #him #like #risen

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

#happiness #may #prepare #self #should

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#any #arts #cannot #exist #feeling

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#i #my soul #said #soul #still

The camera can photograph thought. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#photograph #thought

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#articulate #came #easy #emotions #fantasy

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. ↗

— Will Eisner

#been #day #different #funny #historically