Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from
thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
- Mason Cooley
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book
than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
- Clifton Fadiman
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem
is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader
of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he
has taken an immortal wound - that he will never get over it.
That is to say, permanence in poetry, as in love, is percieved
instantly. It hasn't to wait the test of time. The proof of a
poem is not that we have never forgotten it, but we knew at
sight we never could forget it.
- Robert Frost
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one
day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college -
that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back
at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
- Howard Ikemoto
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be
able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see
the man within.
- Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must
write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history;
it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people
of all ages.
- Auguste Rodin
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water working at their
leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- David Henry Thoreau
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon