Feigenson Gallery Quotes & Sayings

A novel, or so-called "fiction," if deeply researched and conscientiously written, might well contain as much truth as a high-school history textbook approved by a state board of education. But having been designated "historical fiction" by its publisher, it is presumed to be less reliably true than that textbook. If fiction were defined as "the opposite of truth," then much of the content of many approved historical textbooks could be called "historical fiction."
But fiction is not the opposite of truth. Fiction means "created by imagination." And there is plenty of evidence everywhere in literature and art that imagination can get as close to truth as studious fact-finding can. — James Alexander Thom

As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression. — Frederick Lenz

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. — James Parton

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body. — Molly Crabapple

Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

But although she interacted with so many people during the day, no one could actually say that they were close to her. There is an aloofness to the permanently heartbroken, a secrecy. There was something impenetrable about her. There was a door that she had closed, which no one could get in. — Heather O'Neill

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. — Hesiod

He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache which he would entertain briefly, but learn to keep at bay. Mostly, however, it was the contentment he entertained; the slow ease and the silence could, once night had fallen, fill him with a happiness that nothing, no society nor the company of any individual, no glamour or glitter, could equal. — Colm Toibin

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. — Princess Margaret

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales. — P.T. Barnum