Quotes
Quotes about Men
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupidâin which case all comment is superfluousâor it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
