Spooky Action at a Distance (2015), Ch. 4 : The Great Debate
“In emotional vibrancy experience is recollected not in tranquility… but in excitement.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“In tranquility one recollects them with affection, their instinct is good, crazy family good.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Quoted in New York Post (29 February 1960)
Letters and interviews
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch. 27 On studying at Oxford University in 1919.
Context: In the middle of a lecture I would have a sudden very clear experience of men on the march up the Béthune–La Bassée road; the men would be singing... These daydreams persisted like an alternate life and did not leave me until well in 1928. The scenes were nearly always recollections of my first four months in France; the emotion-recording apparatus seems to have failed after Loos.
“I like to think of music as an emotional science.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) American composer and pianist
Page 388
The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)
Grace Hartigan (1922–2008) American artist
Statement to World Artists : 1950-1980 as quoted n "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" in The New York Times (18 November 2008)
Unsourced variant: I have found "my subject", it concerns that which is vital and vulgar in American life and the possibility of its transcendence into the beautiful.
