Phalguni Patel Quotes & Sayings

Our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments. — Rosario Ferre

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate. — David Runciman

I put my life into His hands." "Well," said Victor, earnestly, "let's hope He gives it back. — V.E Schwab

Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.

The artist Paul Klee refers to this simple act as 'taking a line for a walk', an apt description of my own basic practice: allowing the tip of a pencil to wander through the landscape of a sketchbook, motivated by a vague impulse but hoping to find something much more interesting along the way. Strokes, hooks, squiggles and loops can resolve into hills, faces, animals, machines -even abstract feelings- the meanings of which are often secondary to the simple act of making (something young children know intuitively). Images are not preconceived and then drawn, they are conceived as they are drawn. Indeed, drawing is its own form of thinking, in the same way birdsong is 'thought about' within a bird's throat. — Shaun Tan

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with. — Mignon McLaughlin

In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound — John Grierson