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“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”
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“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
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“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”
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“Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press
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“One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.”
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“Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.”
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“Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.”
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“Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe”
Source : Harry Gordon Selfridge (2013). “Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce: An Abridged Version of the Classic Text on Business and Life”, p.3, Adams Media
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“Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.”
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“You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.”
