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“Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.”

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.”

Ifs World Way Mind Humans Children Art Dream Common Limits Draws Art Is Logic Common Sense Immortal Works Of Art

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.”

Ideas Dream Atheism Draws Notion Positive Atheism Conclusion Afterlife Savages

Book:Passages from the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer

Source: Passages from the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer

“our dreams draw blood from old sores.”

Dream Blood Draws Our Dreams

Book:Spell number seven

Source: Spell number seven

“If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.”

People Ifs Stills Moments Feelings Dream Light Remember Sound Quality Childhood Emotional Particular Essentials Draws Unusual Recalls Fooled Still Life

Author:Maurice Sendak