“There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings by dead men, lit so carefully that warmth seemed to emanate from within - and not because their art was loved or understood but because it could be sold and bought for handsome sums.” ArtMoney Book:How the Dead Dream Source: How the Dead Dream
“…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.” ArtSufferingLongingModern WorldOppenheimer Book:Oh Pure and Radiant Heart Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.” InspirationalArtSufferingGriefLongingResilienceAtom BombOppenheimer Book:Oh Pure and Radiant Heart Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
