#tis

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#also #artist #audience #become #concern

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#comes #first #hate #love #nationalism

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#events #friend #history #men #my friend

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#because #briefly #chiefly #far #few

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#leave #never #paragraph #satisfied #sentence

I'm never satisfied. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#never #satisfied

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously. ↗

— Boy George

#believe #choice #get #goal #i

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ↗

— Henry George

#desires #fed #increase #man #never

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#british #destruction #french #further #germans

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish. ↗

— Brian Lamb

#fetish #i #record