“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.”

 G.K. Chesterton

Two quotes today actually:

All doors open to courtesy.

Thomas Fuller

“Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings […]

“Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations… it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.”

Edgar Degas

” I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.”

Francis Ford Coppola

“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

John Steinbeck

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible”

Oscar Wilde

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To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.

Don Schrader

“Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.”

Anaïs Nin