"Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted."

-- Eugene Delacroix

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Woe Quotes

“In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.”
“I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.”
“Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .”
“Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.”
“None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.”
“While it is necessary to eat and therefore it is pleasantest to eat food that looks handsome and tastes good, on the other hand there are things I would far rather do than spend time in a kitchen.”
“What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.”

Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.212, Penguin
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

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