Artist Quote by Camille Paglia

“Poe would certainly have applauded Walter Pater’s assertion that ‘all art continuously aspires to the condition of music’ – to that ideally abstract medium…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong,…

— Tracy Thompson

“At first she was so inexpressive and indifferent that I wanted to know more about her. I envied that blankness - it was the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Let It Go It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange. The more things happen to you the more you can't Tell…

— William Empson

“She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to—an odor, color, pure piercing grace note announcing…

— Thomas Pynchon

“It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness…

— Michael Chabon

“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was…

— Diana Gabaldon

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the…

— George Orwell

“But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line…endless monotony.…

— L.M. Montgomery

“He had become blank, but there was not the expectation of something blank, like a page or a canvas; there was not the hope…

— Brooke Davis

“To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its…

— Edwin Honig

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after…

— J. M. Coetzee