"I have been writing fairy tales for as……" — Kate Bernheimer
"I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic."
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Kate Bernheimer
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9 Quotes by Kate Bernheimer
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From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside…
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The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my…
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to…
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a…
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as…
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As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in…
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth,…
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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