A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire Category: Art
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon Category: Art
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White Category: Weather
It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin Category: Education
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. – Tahar Ben Jelloun Category: Knowledge