“Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall despair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.”
~ William Saroyan; armenian-american dramatist and author.
“We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.”
~William Hazlitt; british writer, critic and philosopher.
“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.”
~John Cage; american composer, music theorist and author.
“Art is a revolt against fate”
~ Andre Malraux; french essayist, novelist and art critic.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
~Albert Einstein; german theoretical physicist and philosopher.
“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”
~Emma Goldman; russian anarchist, activist and author.
“It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.”
~Nikolai Gogol; russo-ukranian author and playwright.
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
~ Salvador Dali; spanish Surrealist painter and visual artist.
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
~ James Joyce; irish author, poet and critic.
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
~Aristotle; ancient greek philosopher and polymath.