"A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom."

-- Wendy Beckett

#Country Quotes #Art Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.”
“Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'”
“Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'”
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
“It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.”
“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”
“If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.”
“.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive”

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