"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."

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Source : Jules Feiffer (1963). “Feiffer's Album”

Jules Feiffer

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“Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.”
“I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.”
“Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.”

Source : "Ruth Ozeki beats Thomas Pynchon to top Kitschie award" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2014.
“There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess”

Source : Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”
“To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.”
“For rarely man escapes his destiny.”
“Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.”
“Problems between countries always exist, especially between such big countries as Russia and the United States. There have always been some issues, but I don't think we should go to extremes.”

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