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"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, howev...er accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
- Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.


"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check." - M. C. Escher

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide)

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. Theodore Roosevelt

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists." G.K. Chesterton

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." Ambrose Bierce

"Going to church every Sunday does not make you any more of a Christian than standing in a garage for an hour a week makes you a car."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -Francis Bacon

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing." - Eugene Delacroix

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check." - M. C. Escher

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw


On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions, who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.