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“Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.”
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“The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.”
Source : Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.32, Courier Corporation
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“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.”
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“We have a high moral responsibility to be rational”
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“The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.”
Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.318, New York Review of Books
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“I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.”
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“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
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“I'm not interested in how people dress.”
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“I've never been sent a lock of hair or anything like that, but I've gotten underwear with my face on it. That was weird.”
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“Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.”
Source : Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.346, Stanford University Press