#ture

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour. ↗

— J.M. Bernstein

#culture #illusion #industry #art

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention. ↗

— Ted Dekker

#christian-fiction #creative-process #rapture-ready #writing #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

I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls linger…they do. They linger a bit before they turn toward eternity. It could be that no matter how perfect their future will be, the past still tugs for a moment. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #creativity #death #dying #glass-girl

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often. ↗

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

#adventure #mystery #suspense #travel #art

Mi čitamo knjige zato da bismo čitanjem proširili granice svog ličnog iskustva. Ako nam knjiga u tom pogledu ne daje apsolutno ništa, nijednog novog fakta, nijednog samostalnog pogleda, nijene originalne ideje, ako ničim ne pokreće i ne podstiče našu misao, mi takvu knjigu nazivamo praznom i ništavnom, bez obzira na to da li je pisana u prozi ili stihu, i uvek smo spremni da autoru takve knjige sa iskrenom dobronamernošću posavetujemo da se lati pravljenja čizama ili pečenja bureka. ↗

— Dimitri I. Pisarev

#literature #literature-writing #art

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#art #convention #architecture

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired. ↗

— Teresa Flavin

#art #history #mystery #young-adult #art

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures. ↗

— Erica Goros

#books #pictures #vision #words #art

É ela [a natureza], igualmente, que leva o homem a matar seu semelhante, a devorá-lo, a sequestrá-lo, a torturá-lo; pois, tão logo saímos da ordem das necessidades e das precisões, para entrar na do luxo e dos prazeres, vemos que a natureza não pode aconselhar senão o crime. (...) É a filosofia (refiro-me à boa), é a religião que manda que alimentemos parentes pobres e enfermos. (...) O mal faz-se sem esforço, naturalmente, e por fatalidade; o bem é sempre o produto de uma arte. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#natureza #art