"artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop."

-- Anne Truitt

#Art Quotes #Lying Quotes #Long Quotes

“I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.”
“That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd; They, who the written Rule and never known, Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone: To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead; And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.”
“You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.”
“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...”
“If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.”

Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148
“It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK
“A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.”
“THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn--or worse, indifference--cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2008). “The Interpretation of Murder”, p.12, Hachette UK

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