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“I didn’t feel for Warhol the way Robert did. His work reflected a culture I wanted to avoid. I hated the soup and felt little for the can. I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Oh take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists."

"Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you're left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it's still there, it's still valuable, and it's achieved the full measure of it's being. A book is to read, whether it's worth five pounds or five thousand pounds”
― Charlie Lovett, First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

“Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.”
― Augesten Burroughs

“Time has cleansed my name.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Lost Summers of Newport

“Life is so beautiful”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Has-been” stenciled on his forehead.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

“What woman was going to choose Alfred Einstein over Humphrey Bogart?”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

“The modern Hungarian artists, followers of that zigzag nonsense done by Matisse and Picasso and their ilk in Paris.”
― Ed Ifkovic, Cafe Europa

“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting." One June evening, when”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

“To my mind, a picture should be something
pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There
are too many unpleasant things in life as it is
without creating still more of them. —PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR”
― Susan Vreeland, Luncheon of the Boating Party

“gone as was the putrid smell of the pus-filled leg”
― Andrew Blair, The Trial of Henry the 8th

“She was married to an overweight infirm man who leaked pus from an old wound.”
― Andrew Blair, The Trial of Henry the 8th

“The thinking would be that a fat, ugly Henry with his pus-leaking wound”
― Andrew Blair, The Trial of Henry the 8th

“He grew fat and his leg seeped pus.”
― Andrew Blair, The Trial of Henry the 8th

“He mixed red with white on his palette. “Such pleasure paint gives.”
― Susan Vreeland, Luncheon of the Boating Party

“despise the idea that paintings are investments,” Auguste said. “Why not hang a Suez Canal stock certificate on the wall?”
― Susan Vreeland, Luncheon of the Boating Party

“Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.”
― José Saramago, All the Names

“Don’t stick your nose in where it isn’t wanted.”
― José Saramago, All the Names

“He patted te large book that was the Prose Portl and looked at Mycroft’s genetically engineered bookworms. They were on rest & recuperation at present in their goldfish bowl; they had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity, Emotions also seem to act according to gravity.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Negative is food for a malady”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“I remember having read somewhere, in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Talks more and says less than anybody I ever met.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.”
― Anonymous, The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports

“Everybody needed a cup of tea sometimes.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“I am the Love which dares not tell its name”
― Anonymous, The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports