Quote for Today: Pat Barker
Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human …
Quote for Today: Steven R. Boyett
You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels …
Quote for Today: Akshay Vasu
When you explain an art to someone, you destroy an imagination that was about to catapult in them, and you destroy a place which they were about to build in …
Quote for Today: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We …
Quote for Today: Kevin Brockmeier
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside …
Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tipped and tilted to get it through the door. If the past is a …
Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling …
Quote for Today: António Damásio
We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, …
Quote for Today: Chuck Close
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us …
Quote for Today: Mark Twain
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: …