By : F. Murray Abraham 0 Likes
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
By : Mary Leakey
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
By : Sigmund Freud
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
By : Balthus
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.
By : Nicolas Malebranche
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
By : Samuel Johnson
I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
By : Johan Cruijff
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
By : Polly Toynbee
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.
By : Kenneth Koch