Karchmar Ri Quotes

#1. Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Jerry Saltz

#2. I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Be aware that you are always invulnerable to personal attacks inspired by envy and spite.

Allen Drury

#4. Lying there, feeling safe in his tight embrace, a tear escaped my resolute eye and darkened his purple shirt. I usually do not cry when I am afraid, but invariably did when I felt safe and cocooned, like I felt in the confines of his strong, sure arms.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#5. And so my satisfactions had only been brothel satisfactions, which hadn't been satisfactions at all.

V.S. Naipaul

#6. A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

Kacey Musgraves

#7. [On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#8. Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

Diana Peterfreund

#9. What did I want? What was I looking for? What was I doing there, hour after hour? Contradictory things. I wanted to know what was going on. I wanted to be stimulated. I wanted to be in contact and I wanted to retain my privacy, my private space.

Olivia Laing

#10. At the circus, a careless mother may let her child take part in the experiments of a Chinese magician. He puts him in a box. He opens the box; it's empty. He closes it again. He opens it; the child reappears and goes back to his seat. Now it is no longer the same child. Nobody doubts it.

Jean Cocteau