Quotes

A esperança e quando a dor presente noz faz tentar outra vez (Hope is when we feel the pain that makes us try again). –Chico Science

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. –Oscar Wilde

Angels are not economists. Magnificently they squander their light. –Jean (Hans) Arp

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. –Rose Franken

Architecture is frozen music. –Goethe

Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. –Richard Huelsenbeck

Art is energy shaped by intelligence. –Gore Vidal

Ask a vampire what he’s about and he’ll tell you sex, death, and religion. –Donald Barthelme

Chance favors the prepared observer. –Marcel Duchamp

Ever tried, ever failed. Never mind. Try again, fail better. –Samuel Beckett

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. –Wassily Kandinsky

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. –Baudelaire

I think humor is an adhesive that joins tragedy and happiness together. –Robert Rauschenberg

In public life it is sometimes necessary in order to appear really natural to be actually artificial. –Calvin Coolidge

One can never be radical enough; that is, one must always try to be as radical as reality itself. –V. I. Lenin

Only those who stand outside the frame are capable of seeing the whole picture. –Salman Rushdie

Spiritual reality bestows rich gifts on him who does not close himself to it. –Marcel Janco

That’s why I love to ride on the omnibus–you can look at people. We were made to look at one another, weren’t we? –Degas

The best writing is rewriting. –EB White

When I came to teach, I was obliged to make precisely clear what I did for the most part unconsciously. –Paul Klee