Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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A Broadway play is so much an event, designed down to the bit parts to explode in your face on one particular night, that it is hard to judge any one of them fairly from the scrawny instructions known as a script.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Society’s logic is faulty, but its intimation of an enemy is not. Still, the social conflict with society is an incidental obstacle in the artist’s path.
~ Mark Rothko
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Feeling must have a medium in order to function at all; in the same way, thought must have symbols.
~ Mark Rothko
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Drama moves us: conflict is an inherent pattern in reality. Harmony moves us too: faced as we are with ever imminent disorder. It is a powerful idea.
~ Mark Rothko
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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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