“Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.” ThinkingArtSaidLife IsArtistHoursWorstHairNeededSceneArt IsMadMilesIceFortyWorst ThingsFacilityWristsSkatesThink TwiceGliding Author:Randall Jarrell
“The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!” FirstsKindArtMatterSeemsDifferencesHairDefinitionsMilesBest ThingsShadeInwardMiles AwaySecond BestQuiver Book:The Letters of William James Source: The Letters of William James
“Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.” PeopleMomentsHandsEyeFormMotherFoundFatherVoiceDoorsCarHairAddRoseMilesChairsThat MomentBentOld PeopleMother And Father Author:Louise Erdrich
“So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.” BoysTreeHairLuckMilesForestsBranchesTree Branches Book:Unearthly Source: Unearthly
“I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.” WantLeftCitiesBrainStepsStreetsHairMoonPressureDistanceTrainSmellMilesNewspapersGoldenDiamondPreciseBellyWeepingViolinSnowflakeOdorCafesNeuronsCometsLuggageChristmas EveNecklacesWant To TravelAromaHobosMozzarella Author:Tom Robbins
“I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.” WalksHairRedBusyMilesExcellentGrayRed HairHairdresser Author:Jodi Picoult
“You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.” StillsWhiteLibertyHairJazzMilesSugarBlack HistoryBlack History MonthPlantationsSatinBlack History Month InspirationalAfrican American HistoryAfrican American History MonthSugar Cane Author:Billie Holiday