"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

#Art Quotes #Nature Quotes #Reality Quotes

“It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.”
“I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.”

Source : Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.52, Michael O'Mara Books
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library
“Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.”
“There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.”
“Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes are no longer mostly about tariffs, quotas, or free entry of goods. They are about the ground rules for capitalism. Are there to be only property rights? What about the other rights that liberal democracies have fought for since the 1880s?”
“I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.”
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

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