A Quote by Charles Bukowski

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

Charles Bukowski

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Exhibitions General Madness Ordinary Tales

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Charles Bukowski
American - Novelist
August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

Jack Zipes

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

Angela Carter

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich bitches don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Viggo Mortensen

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

Paulo Coelho

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

Jerry Saltz

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Saul Bellow

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

Jerry Saltz

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

David Hume

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

Julie Kagawa

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

Joyce Carol Oates

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Charles Bukowski

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.

Stan Lee

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