#over

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#answers #clear #get #go #government

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artist #beginning #creation #discovery #art

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart. ↗

— J.R. Ackerley

#dog #doglovers #humanity #kindness #love

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#brand #designer #educational #fame #fashion

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#arts #diy #funding #government #grant

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#taxonomy #art

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#controversy #value #writing #art

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#friends #lovers #neighbors #opposites #their

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have. ↗

— Thomas More

#government #human-nature #peace #rulers #war