The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

John Donne

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Henry Rollins

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

William Bernbach

All good government must begin at home.

H. R. Haweis

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Octavio Paz

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

William Hazlitt

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Jodi Picoult

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Frantz Fanon

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

Max Bill