BEATRIX POTTER, MARCEL DUCHAMPJACKIE KENNEDY—–1929-1994——FORMER FIRST LADY
YOU HAVE TO BE DOING SOMETHING YOU ENJOY. THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS.
WE SHOULD ALL DO SOMETHING to right the wrongs that were see and not just complain about them.
ONCE YOU CAN EXPRESS YOURSELF, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
IF YOU BUNGLE RAISING YOUR CHILDREN, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.
THE FIRST TIME YOU MARRY FOR LOVE, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
IF YOU WANT THINGS TO BE RIGHT, YOU HAVE TO DO THEM YOURSELF.
A GREAT GOAL IN LIFE IS THE ONLY FORTUNE WORTH FINDING.
THERE ARE MANY LITTLE WAYS TO ENLARGE YOUR CHILD’S WORLD. LOVE OF BOOKS IS THE BEST OF ALL.
OUR CULTURE WILL BECOME like it was during medieval times WHEN there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.
I AM HAPPIEST WHEN I AM ALONE.
YOU MUST CONTINUE. Poets are the ones who change the world.
HISTORY — its what those bitter old men write.
BEATRIX POTTER 1866-1943 “PETER RABBIT TALES”
I REMEMBER I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense . . .
I HOLD that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
THANK GOD I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
SO MUCH PERFECTION ARGUES ROTTENNESS SOMEWHERE.
THE SHORTER AND PLAINER THE BETTER.
I HOLD an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
IT IS SAID that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
I THINK PREJUDICE AND TRADITION COUNT FOR THREE-QUARTERS IN MATTERS OF RELIGION.
IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born.
WHAT HEAVEN can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
I HAVE MADE STORIES TO PLEASE MYSELF, BECAUSE I NEVER GREW UP.
WITH OPPORTUNITY THE WORLD IS VERY INTERESTING.
THANK GOODNESS I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
J
MARCEL DUCHAMP 1887-1968 ARTIST FRENCH AVANT GARDE
HUMOR IS THE ONLY REASON TO LIVE.
ART IS NOT ABOUT ITSELF BUT THE ATTENTION WE BRING TO IT.
YOU CANNOT DEFINE ELECTRICITY. The same can be said of art. it is a kind of inner current in a human being or something which needs no definition.
UNLESS A PICTURE SHOCKS, IT IS NOTHING.
AESTHETIC DELECTATION IS THE DANGER TO BE AVOIDED.
IT IS THE SPECTATORS WHO MAKE THE PICTURES.
IN MY DAY artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. now they are all integrated into society.
DO UNTO OTHERS AS THEY WISH, BUT WITH IMAGINATION.
I BELIEVE THAT A PICTURE, A WORK OF ART, LIVES AND DIES JUST AS WE DO.
THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT ARTISTS IS HOW THEY LIVE.
IF A SHADOW IS A TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROJECTION of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional universe.
ART IS LIKE A SHIPWRECK; IT’S EERY MAN FOR HIMSELF.
I WAS POKING FUN AT MYSELF MOST OF ALL.
CHESS IS A SPORT. A VIOLENT SPORT.
THE WORD ‘ART’ INTERESTS ME VERY MUCH. IF IT COMES FROM SANSKRIT, AS I’VE HEARD, IT SIGNIFIES ‘MAKING.’
IN THE CREATIVE ACT, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.
ALL DECISIONS in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
TO ALL APPEARANCES, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
ANYTHING IS ART IF AN ARTIST SAYS IT IS.
ARTMAKING IS MAKING THE INVISIBLE, VISIBLE.
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SEE THAT IS ART, ART IS THE GAP.
DESTRUCTION IS ALSO CREATION.
ART HAS THE LOVELY HABIT OF RUINING ALL ARTISTIC THEORIES.
AS SOON AS WE START PUTTING OUR THOUGHTS INTO WORDS AND SENTENCES EVERYTHING GETS DISTORTED, language is just no damn good — I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
“LET YOUR SOUL SHINE”