Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Asger Jorn

“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art”. –Asger Jorn

Richard Crashaw

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

Paul Valéry

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

Frederick Rolfe

“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties — French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time”. –Frederick Rolfe

Federico García Lorca

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

Charles Reade

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble”. –Charles Reade

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

René Magritte

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb”. –René Magritte

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Marcel Duchamp

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes”. –Marcel Duchamp

George Moore

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand”. –George Moore

Rembrandt

“Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know”. –Rembrandt

Oliver Herford

“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Jerry Garcia

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously”. –Jerry Garcia

Alexander Meiklejohn

“Democracy is the art of thinking independently together”. –Alexander Meiklejohn

Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. –Albert Einstein

Claude Debussy

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art”. –Claude Debussy

Nathalie Sarraute

“It’s the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles”. –Nathalie Sarraute

Walter Kaufmann

“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains”. –Walter Kaufmann

Pablo Picasso

“It’s not what the artist does that counts, but what he is”. — Pablo Picasso

Groucho Marx

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies”. –Groucho Marx