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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
– Yann Martel

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  1. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  2. Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. – Marc Chagall
  3. My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
  4. Pictures … flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. – Thomas Harris
  5. The holy word is story, and story is the holy word. – Yann Martel
  6. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. – Yann Martel
  7. As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar! – Gerard de Marigny
  8. Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious – Yann Martel
  9. Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. – Yann Martel
  10. I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. – Yann Martel
  11. I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. – Yann Martel
  12. When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. – Yann Martel
  13. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get. – Yann Martel
  14. There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. – Yann Martel
  15. I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools. – Yann Martel
  16. Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. – Yann Martel
  17. To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken. – Yann Martel
  18. We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more–there is no greater relationship. – Yann Martel
  19. Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry. – Yann Martel
  20. My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. – Yann Martel
  21. The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. – Yann Martel
  22. Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. – Yann Martel
  23. As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. – Yann Martel
  24. The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. – Yann Martel
  25. In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. – Yann Martel
  26. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  27. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  28. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
  29. I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting. – Juan Miro
  30. Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting – Leonardo da Vinci
  31. Perception is like painting a scenery – no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself. – Abhijit Naskar
  32. Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer. – Kevin James Breaux
  33. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  34. Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  35. A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. – Robert McKee
  36. Don’t make noise, rather give people good reasons to make noise about you. – Unarine Ramaru
  37. The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence. – Chaim Potok
  38. Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise! – Nikhil Karke
  39. …music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence. – AP
  40. The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color! – Jodi Livon

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