Quotes
Quotes about Art
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun].
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. - Chance.
"You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last nightâI changed the lock!.
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood. Thou art no father nor friend of mine.
Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.
All of which misery I saw, part of which I was. [Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui.]
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Mel Karmazin is meretricious. His Viacom is avaricious His CBS is quite litigious His public nudity is planned and vicious. His Likud Party is vengeful, vicious. It's time to exorcise the legions which have entered Karmazin through spirit lesions.
Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
