I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Resitance is by nature reactive; it is not forward-looking.
~ Mark Lilla
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov
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To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Anton Chekhov
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It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Every truthful work of art must express a definite feeling, must move the spirit of the spectator either to joy or to sadness.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
~ A. J. Liebling
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France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that’s why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it’s like shouting in a forest. There’s no echo.
~ Marc Chagall
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The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.
~ Timothy Snyder
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