#ows

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#forgotten #made #storms #vows

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #characters #every #feeling #knows

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around? ↗

— William Gaddis

#around #artist #done #dregs #expect

Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer. ↗

— Noel Gallagher

#been #crazy #fascination #good #i

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#follows #hour #i #love #pleasure

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#does #europe #fascism #first #first time

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#am #because #childhood #dreams #i

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ↗

— Jean Genet

#fact #knows #shares #singularity #strange

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. ↗

— Paul Getty

#any #chastity #eunuch #ever #homosexual

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#art #artist #every #form #formal