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“A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.”
Book V • Marcus Aurelius“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
Candide • Voltaire“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
Fragments • Heraclitus“ "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated, just as for a mother the cause of sexual conception is love. The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life, as the consequence of a wife's love is the birth of a new man into life. The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.”
What is art? • Leo Tolstoy