You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another. The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I became a philosopher because I wanted to understand everything, especially those things that didn't make sense. And that has continued to be my philosophical motivation. That's one reason I have such a roving philosophical eye - once I have figured out a philosophical topic to my satisfaction, I find myself moving on to new problems.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.
Iraq broke our back in terms of counterterrorism. There's no doubt about it. The first thing, though, that hurt us was the fact that the U. S. military was absolutely unprepared to do anything on 911 - or 912 or 913. And by the time we actually attacked Afghanistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban had dispersed.