Collage Quotes

“Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.”
― Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading

“On the great canvas of time
We all create our own masterpiece.

Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours
Dancing over the days
Painting pictures over months and
Writing our stories on the years.
Singing our songs that echo across eons.

We are all a thread in the talent tapestry.
A snapshot in the cosmic, collective collage.”
― Michele Jennae

“I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.”
― Robert Rauschenberg

“Life is like a collage. Its individual pieces are arranged to create harmony. Appreciate the artwork of your life.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

“Beauty is so rare a th—
Sing a new song
Real
Music
A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A
Visiting card


— from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958]”
― Jack Spicer

“So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“Education is a system designed to make you feel inferior, yet they encourage you to accept it in order to be superior”
― Isiphile Petse

“Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation”
― Robert Motherwell

“What if I took the picture books that my grandmother made and snapped open the rings in every binder, let the plastic pages spill out onto the floor, and then attacked them with my scissors?

Those books, pasted together by my grandmother, year after year, replaced the cognitive exercise of memory for me. Sitting on a section of wall-to-wall carpeting, drinking the bubbling red birch beer from a tinted brown glass, I reestablished my relationships with the members of my family. This is where I put it all together and perpetuated the lies. Not malicious lies, but lies with so many years to develop that we forgot the truth because nobody rehearsed it. When Mark was sentence to sixty days in a twelve-step rehab program in 1991, he wrote an inventory of his experiences with drugs and alcohol that filled a whole notebook, and then he gave it to us to read, It was in those pages that I learned he had once tapped the powder out of horse tranquilizer capsules, melted it down, and shot it into his veins for a high that lasted fourteen days. My God, I thought, Oh my God. This is Mark's story? Okay, now put the cooked-down shot-up horse tranquilizer against the pictures in the album. What do you get? Collage. Dry made wet and introduced into the body. Cut cut cut. It's not so radical.”
― Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure

“This is something Mark Twain, or Samuel Clemens wrote, or whatever: "To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“Na realidade só tenho sido poeta, o mais é fantasia”
― Jorge de Lima, A pintura em pânico

“حتى القصائد كنت أكتبها، كأني الوحي في الكلمات يأخذني إليك!
يا أجمل الأصوات في صدري تعبت، وآن أن أغفو قليلاً كالحمام وأستريح براحتيك…”
― Mahdi Mansour

“Fruit trees bloomed, paths meandered, hills swelled, like someone had clipped pictures out of a pile of magazines and then glued the very best ones together on a single page.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake