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“This was art. Something the machine, however capable in the tech- nical details, could never understand. Because art is, and always has been, about what it does to us. To the one shaping it and the one expe- riencing it.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Why do we tell stories? They are a universal human experience. Every culture I’ve ever visited, every people I’ve met, every human on every planet in every situation I’ve seen…they all tell stories. Men trapped alone for years tell them to themselves. Ancients leave them painted on the walls. Women whisper them to their babies. Stories explain us. You want to define what makes a human different from an animal? I can do it in one word or a hundred thousand. Sad stories. Exultant stories. Didactic morality tales. Frivolous yarns that, paradoxically, carry too much meaning. We need stories.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Everybody knows how to die. You just quit living and then you're slap-taught.”
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
“Art - and all stories are art, even the ones about real people - is about what it does to you.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Why do you not fight when there is still breath and blood within you? Why do you not trumpet and flail?”
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
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