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Quotes
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Authors
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Quentin S. Crisp
"[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America."
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Quentin S. Crisp
#Japan Quotes
#America Quotes
#Pioneers Quotes
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“Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.”
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“Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”
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“Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?”
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“There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.”
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“The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.”
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“If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.”
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“One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.”
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“James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His onslaught is massive and leaves no room for response. Every sentence is an immediate cocked grenade. You pick it up, then realize that it is too late. It just blows up in your face. And yet he still managed to stay human, tender, accessible.”
