The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?
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E.a. Bucchianeri
Talent & Skills are useless & won’t get you anywhere, without lot of practice, commitment & prioritization
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Unknown
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)
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Dorothy L. Sayers
It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a negative significance. If, on the other hand, we believe that we are living souls, God's dust and...
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Wendell Berry
Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.
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Shah Asad Rizvi
More Quotes By James Thurber
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
You are all a lost generation, " Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
You have made the moon, " The Jester said. "That is the moon.
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
