I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walker, The Colour Purple
Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Line
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“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
It’s not what you look at what matters. It’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
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“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“Gut! Wenn ich wählen soll, so will ich Rheinwein haben.
Das Vaterland verleiht die allerbesten Gaben.”“Good! if I have the choice, so let the wine be Rhenish!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust I
Our Fatherland can best the sparkling cup replenish.”
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“From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
Definitely a renewed blade, look how shiny it is. Who is holding it, though? I have no idea. The sculpture is overlooking the Place of the Republic in Plsen, Czech Republic.
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“But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed, it’s even more true that it changes the observer.”
Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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Wordless Wednesday
