#fractured

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #attempt #fractured #i #live

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#develop #fractured #fragile #funny #kid

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery. ↗

— William Falconer

#any #application #applied #broken #employed

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cosmos #divorced #each #fractured #fragmented

I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs to take the plunge, to dive off headfirst and let the feeling of control evaporate on the wind. And part of me wants to be in a place where I'd never have to worry about that choice--or any choice. Where peace and calm are the only things I'd feel. ↗

— Jocelyn Davies

#beauty

You can put the girl in a relationship...," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished. ↗

— Jocelyn Davies

#a-fractured-light #boy-crazy #cassie #friends #girls

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#dark #dramatic #fractured #happen #i

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#fractured #full #goal #need #only

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#bass #career #college #fractured #guitar