#so

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#modern-art #sophistication #superiority #art

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#limits #oppression #sadomasochism #sex #sexuality

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book #composition #habits #i #learning

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#cliche #global #internet #mind #really

You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work. ↗

— Amy Harmon

#art

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#artist #culture #follow #free #him

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#funny #misanthropy #philosophy #poets #schopenhauer

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art. ↗

— Frances Fong

#disgust #inertia #isolation #poetry #sadness

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#energy #foreign #foreign sources #need #our

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. ↗

— Thomas John Barnardo

#better #character #conduct #highest #importance