Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford Category: Art
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. – Khalil Gibran Category: Art
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Genius
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. – Bertrand Russell Category: Humankind
I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it. – Stonewall Jackson Category: Alcohol
