"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."

-- David Rockefeller

#Mother Quotes #Art Quotes #Museums Quotes

“Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.”
“Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.”
“A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.”
“A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.”
“Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.”
“I do think vulnerability is a virtue.”
“It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.”
“Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.”

Source : "Eddie Izzard: Stripped". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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