“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”
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Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter
1950's <br class="br">Source: Conversations with Artists, Selden Rodman, New York Devin-Adair 1957. p. 93.; reprinted as 'Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956', in Writings on Art: Mark Rothko (2006) ed. Miguel López-Remiro p. 119 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=ZdYLk3m2TN4C&pg=PA119 <br class="br">Context: I am not an abstractionist... I am not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else... I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Tolkien in Oxford (1968) http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12237.shtml, a BBC 2 television documentary (at 21:49)
“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”
Bill Willingham (1956) American comics writer and artist
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
“I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“I'm only interested in poetry.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966