top of page
.png){kind=small}
"No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible."
Standard
Customized
More
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
Author Name
Personal Development
"History develops, art stands still."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Morality
"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."
Society
"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
Criticism
"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
Intensity
"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."
Life
"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."
Life
"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
Life
"You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs."
Society
"Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal."
Art
"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
Action
bottom of page