"People in misery is what most important in art."

-- Zhang Yimou

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.”
“Chance is the only source of true novelty.”

Source : Life Itself (p. 82)
“Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.”
“An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.”
“I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.”
“Money makes a man laugh.”
“Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.”
“In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed and confounded by the supreme constructive ingenuity revealed not only in the retina and in the dioptric apparatus of the vertebrates but even in the meanest insect eye. ... I felt more profoundly than in any other subject of study the shuddering sensation of the unfathomable mystery of life.”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1989). “Recollections of My Life”, p.576, MIT Press

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