#so

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

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#art #cannot #great #great art #interested

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#sorrow #art

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. ↗

— Janet Goodfriend

#best #book-club #cape-cod #character #community

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights. ↗

— Les Back

#sociology #art