Quotes for the Wandering Mind


ON PLAY

"The opposite of play is NOT work.  It is depression."    Brian Sutton-Smith

"We don't stop playing because we grow old;   we grow old because we stop playing.    G.B.Shaw

In times of Destruction, Create Something.                   Maxine Hong Kingston

In times of Creation, Destroy Something.                                                   anon

 

ON ART

 

Art is not self-expression, but self alteration    -- John Cage

 

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.   -- Ananda Commaraswamy

 

A man’s work is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, those one or two images in     the presence of which his heart first opened.  --Albert Camus

 

ON The OUTER WORLD


Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force.

Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master;

never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.