Knut Hamsun Pan Famous Quotes & Sayings

The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life. — Knut Hamsun

Wasn't Pan sitting in a tree watching to see how I would comport myself? Wasn't his belly open, and wasn't he hunched over so that he seemed to be drinking from his own belly? But all this he did only so he could cock his eye and watch me, and the whole tree shook from his silent laughter when he saw that my thoughts were running away with me. — Knut Hamsun

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both. — John Paul Caponigro

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus. — John Stott

'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the worlds and characters were of my own making.' — Fae Sutherland

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are. — Chris Matakas

I don't like this idea
It is too much focus
on something I am trying to forget
I am afraid
that this attention to detail
will only fuel my anxiety — Samantha Schutz

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. — Pablo Picasso