Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist.
~ Mark Rothko
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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The activity of the artist makes him less socially conditioned and more humans. It is then that he is disposed to revolution.
~ Mark Rothko
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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