The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist.
― Walter Benjamin
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The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist.
― Walter Benjamin
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
~ Ansel Adams
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Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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I see no limit to the capabilities of machines. As microchips get smaller and faster, I can see them getting better than we are. I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans.
~ Claude Shannon
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~ Gertrude Stein
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~ Arthur Koestler
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Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. We assert that only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
~ Mark Rothko
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The artist is of no importance.
~ William Faulkner
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Agonizing over whether your love is “the real thing” or your sexual relationship above or below par, and wondering whether you could have done better is a prescription for misery. Knowing that you’ve made a decision choice that you will not reverse allows you to pour your energy into improving the relationship that you have rather than constantly second-guessing it.
~ Barry Schwartz
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