Favourite Quotes and Quotations

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Art vol 2...

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein

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

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

Art is a revolt against fate.
Andre Malraux

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

[jacobtlong]

"It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black." - Nigel Tufnel

David St. Hubbins: "It's such a fine line between stupid, and uh..."
Nigel Tufnel: "Clever."
David St. Hubbins: "Yeah, and clever."

"You can't really dust for vomit." - Nigel Tufnel

[Nigel Tufnel is showing Marty DiBergi one of his favorite guitars]
Nigel Tufnel: "The sustain, listen to it."
Marty DiBergi: "I don't hear anything."
Nigel Tufnel: "Well you would though, if it were playing."

"Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported." - David St. Hubbins

Nigel Tufnel: "The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and..."
Marty DiBergi: "Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?"
Nigel Tufnel: "Exactly."
Marty DiBergi: "Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?"
Nigel Tufnel: "Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?"
Marty DiBergi: "I don't know."
Nigel Tufnel: "Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?"
Marty DiBergi: "Put it up to eleven."
Nigel Tufnel: "Eleven. Exactly. One louder."
Marty DiBergi: "Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] "These go to eleven."

The movie This is Spinal Tap has a rating on the Internet Movie Database that is eight out of eleven. Most movies can only go to ten. This one can go one greater.

[Jax]

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso

[Haunted]

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~ Marilyn vos Savant

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Art vol 3...

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is science made clear.
Wilson Mizner

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller

[Haunted]

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

[Srbo]

They aren’t any such thing as good friends or bad friends.
Maybe there are just friends.
People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely.
Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for.
Maybe worth dying for too.
If that what has to be.
No bad friends.
Only people you want.
Need to be with.
People who build their houses in your heart."

— Stephen King - IT

[Ragan]

Lots of quotes about art...

"Because art is magic, and not all magic is white."
Stephen King

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Age vol 1...

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
Jane Elliot

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis