We all live in two realities: one of seeming fixity, with institutions, dogmas, rules of punctuation, and routines, the calendared and clockwise world of all-but-futile round and round; and one of whirling and flying electrons, dreams, and possibilities, behind the clock. —Sidney Cox More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What we know of the world comes to us primarily through vision. Our eyes, however, are sensitive only to that segment of the spectrum located between red and violet; the remaining 95 percent of all existing light (cosmic, infrared, ultraviolet, gammas, and x-rays) we cannot see. This means that we only perceive 5 percent of the "real" world. —Amos Vogel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trust, but verify. —Ronald Reagan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. —Gautama Buddha More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. —Balthus More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fine art is knowledge made visible. —Gustave Courbet More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: age women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. —Bob Hope More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. —Tom Wolfe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: flowers roses diamonds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. —Robert Frost More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Good design doesn't date. —Harry Seidler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. —Susan Sontag More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. —George Burns More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email