A Sampling From My Collection.
I will be posting new ones from time to time.
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I will be posting new ones from time to time.
Check back.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde
As artists, it is our job to slow down the world. – Rose Marcus
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in
being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses
me. – Paul Newman
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make
two questions grow where only one grew before. – Thorstein Veblen
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that
all planning and decisions have been made beforehand and
the execution is a perfunctory affair. – Sol LeWitt
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens
we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
– Andre Gide
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be
kindled. – Plutarch
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by
entering its prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never
get it back. ― Carl Sagan
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled
by someone inferior to yourself. ― Plato, "The Republic"
It's not a matter of painting life. It's a matter of giving
life to painting. – Pierre Bonnard
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the
kind of world you want. - Anna Lappe
If you think you're going to complete your life's vision
in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
– Wes Jackson [Founder of The Land Institute]
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Everything that is solid melts into the air. – Karl Marx
Eroticism is close to life, closer than philosophy or
anything like that, it’s an animal thing that has many
facets and is pleasing to use, as you would use a tube of
paint. – Marcel Duchamp
Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond
all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a
pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your
head. – A.E. Housman
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
– Gregory Corso
To have painted a painting does not empty the vessel out
of which the paintings come. On the contrary, it is the
talent which is not in use that is lost or atrophies, and
to bestow one of our creations is the surest way to invoke
the next. – Lewis Hyde in The Gift.
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human
interaction, the world will have a generation of idiots.
– Albert Einstein
