It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
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That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Tags: why, look, people, music, art
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Tags: moments, succeed, live, life-is-a, life
Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.
Tags: understanding, understand, way, you
When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words no longer meant which car rental to patronize, and yet some of the overtones from its original meaning are there and make a contribution to the new situation.
Tags: new, picture, words, car
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
Tags: enough, i-am, brave, art
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