"It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn"

-- John Porcellino

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.”
“VelÃ¡zquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.”
“Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.”
“The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it.”
“Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.”
“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.”
“I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for lifeâ€™s essential absurdity.”

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