quotes about Back In The Day

“It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.”

Source : "Ales Kot's highly ambitious Zero explores the deep roots of violence" by Shea Hennum and Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2015.

“If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”

“Seek that your last days be your best days.”

“I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.”

“Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.”

“We see but in dreams the ideal.”

Source : Henri Cazalis, “Always”

“If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.”

“[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.”

“Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.”

“The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.”

Source : "Liber de ludo aleae". Book by Gerolamo Cardano, 1560.