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“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.”
Source : from a note author wrote down on his return from Paris as quoted in "Expressionism" by Wolf-Dieter Dube, 1973, p. 126, 1907.
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“I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.”
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“America isn't Wollman Rink, but I think almost everybody watching, and certainly the people who voted for him, have had frustrating experiences with bureaucrats and bureaucracy, private as well as public, pushing them around.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Everything goes with short hair. It's bananas.”
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“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”
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“Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.”
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“Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.”
Source : Joseph Cornell (1993). “Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files”, Thames & Hudson
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“Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.”
