#hai

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy. ↗

— Billy Barty

#call #condition #hair #just #me

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#black and white #difficult #drawing #even #gray

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#because #character #give #gray #gray hair

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#empty #huey #lies #making #ourselves

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Browning

#ambitious #anxiety #birds #cage #chain

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. ↗

— Al Capp

#disappointed #first #had #hair #her

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair. ↗

— Anthony Caro

#chair #does #everyday #everyday life #i

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#chain #darkness #discovery #drops #every

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#baldness #foolish #grief #hair #less