As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Michel Poiccard: Don't use the brakes. Cars are made to go, not to stop!
You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Nichts ist stabiler als die Fahrt in den Abgrund.
The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.
As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
