“The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.” ArtistFatherChanceWifeMinesPaintingHusbandStrangerUsualConfessionAcquaintance Author:Ilya Kabakov
“We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.” PersonsMotherFatherPiecesBrokenPicksStrangerBrokeShakesOur LoveOur FatherBroken Pieces Author:Tarryn Fisher
“It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.” HeartCharacterMightFatherInterestingBrainBloodSonDaughterSittingStrangerFleshAgonyObscureArrowsFlesh And BloodDaggersInteresting CharactersHaughty Book:Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne