“ We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. W. H. Auden Poet
“ We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. W. H. Auden Poet
“ An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor." Saint Augustine Saint
“ The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live. Albert Pinkham Ryder Painter
“ Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. Red Smith Sportswriter
“ Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist