Art Quote by Alexander Theroux

“Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?”

Alexander Theroux

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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

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Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary…

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“...we are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless…

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Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery… You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that…

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The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to…

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The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter,…

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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

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The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is…

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Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

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“. . . it is called 'camel case' or 'intercapping' -- of writing small letters next to large in the same word, as in…

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Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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