Famous quotes containing the words view and/or include:
“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artistthe only thing hes good foris to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if its only his view of a meaning. Thats what hes forto give his view of life.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (18901980)
“My familys lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include us, no matter how hard I tried to squeeze us in. There was an idea of the good poorhard-working, ragged but clean, and intrinsically honorable. I understood that we were the bad poor ...”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)