#gin

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. ↗

— John Dewey

#changing #comes #each #endeavor #experience

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down. ↗

— Rob Ryser

#existence #existential #identity #meaning #origin

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#based #biography #entirely #expectation #had

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#been #better #bit #case #early

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. ↗

— Otto Dix

#beginning #brought #cause #did #dreadful

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. ↗

— Robert Doisneau

#image #imagination #just #make #more

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#begging #drop #energy #ingenuity #instead

I always thought I was singing American folk music. ↗

— Lonnie Donegan

#american #folk #folk music #i #i always

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

#creativity #genius #insanity #originality #schizophrenia

I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as optical effects that is. I want to see the deeper reality underlying the scenic, the expression of what are sometimes called abstract imaginings. The ‘simply natural’ is interesting no longer. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#imagination #reality #art