More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach. . Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
The real function of art is to change mental patterns. . . making new thought possible.
The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.
Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.