#thou

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#been #dead #had #mozart #sobering

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#artists #even #finished #i #knew

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#aspect #basic #importance #like #looks

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are. ↗

— David Selby

#only #people #perception #person #roll

Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand!” (And he shook me with the force of his hold.) “I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage—with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwellingplace. And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity— that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like an essence—you will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#beauty

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#bad #calls #every #got #i

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet! ↗

— Julian Lennon

#company #decision #had #haven #i

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort. ↗

— Donna Leon

#blackest #ending #hope #sort #utterly

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#although #career #gold #gold medal #great

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#being #claim #fact #how #i