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He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service.
“Life is unfair, and sometimes it helps to irrationally blame someone for it.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“What does it feel like, to love someone so much that you’re willing to publicly bare your heart and soul with a black Sharpie?”
― Felix Ever After
― Felix Ever After
“How Mughal paintings signified cannot be argued out here, but my point is that the work of categorizing must–if Indian paintings are to emerge from the margins of art history–make room for a return to questions about how they mattered to viewers.”
― A Magic World: New Visions of Indian Painting
― A Magic World: New Visions of Indian Painting
“Do you ever feel like you’re only ever watching? I ask Declan. Never really participating. Never really doing. Just always watching.”
― Felix Ever After
― Felix Ever After
“Because we are all human and there by share a
neurological apparatus of vision which we can take, save for cases of obvious malfunction, as behaving in the same way for everyone, there seems no reason to doubt that what a painter understands by, say, a hand
is exactly what everyone understands by it. Yet how can we be sure that visual experience is universally similar? What guarantees the guarantee?”
― Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze
neurological apparatus of vision which we can take, save for cases of obvious malfunction, as behaving in the same way for everyone, there seems no reason to doubt that what a painter understands by, say, a hand
is exactly what everyone understands by it. Yet how can we be sure that visual experience is universally similar? What guarantees the guarantee?”
― Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze
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