"The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself."

-- Andre Malraux

#Artist Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Order Quotes

“Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.”
“Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.”

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.122, MIT Press
“I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them”
“I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.”
“To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.”
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
“Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.27, Courier Corporation
“Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.”

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