"Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man."

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David Hume

#Art Quotes #Nature Quotes #Men Quotes

“I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.”
“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”
“I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.”
“In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 28), 2004.
“Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.”

Source : Attributed
“If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.”
“Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.54, Wildside Press LLC
“In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.”

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