#ding

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #enjoyment #understanding #art

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. ↗

— George Osborne

#government #government spending #grip #growth #spending

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#army #building #composition #else #guitar

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status. ↗

— Abigail Biddinger

#abolish #art #biddinger #free #genre

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#deceive #decisions #got #i #i think

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#friends #gay #hesitated #i #lesbian

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#always #anxious #children #day #father

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#forward #i #know #leading #life

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#buddy #different #english #fiction #john

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reading #age