The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

e. e. cummings

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

George Orwell

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Oscar Wilde

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

Charles Dickens

...If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left--

Cassandra Clare

I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.

Krysten Ritter

~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~

Michelle Horst

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Ron Wood

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly to the heart. -- Viktor Schauberger.

Viktor Schauberger

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal

Oscar Wilde