"The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. (in discussion with Franz Marc who demanded in 'Der Blaue Reiter' around 1912 a new art, in relation to its own - changing - time)."

-- Max Beckmann

#Art Quotes #Law Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.”
“That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.”
“Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.”
“...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.”
“Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.”
“When I was making a shift... from one thing to another I didn't want to be answering questions: 'How come you're doing this?' 'How come you're doing that?' so I didn't allow anyone in my studio and I just worked away in there.”
“People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.”
“Advice,' DoÃ±a Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.”

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