sesquipedalian - 'a lover of obscure words'
"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter." Bertrand Russell
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When bankers get together for dinner they talk about art. When artists get together for dinner they talk about money.” Oscar Wilde
"It is more acceptable to fail in conventional ways than in unconventional ways. And its corollary: The reward for succeeding in unconventional ways is less than the risk of failing in unconventional ways. In short, you can screw up with impunity so long as you screw up like everybody else." -Puttnam's Law
Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.- Napolean Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.” Baudelaire
"ars longa, vita brevis". Art is long, life is short
"When someone tries to bring you down...it's because they are already beneath you."
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”- Arthur Schopenhauer
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell
“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”- Cicero
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious." Oscar Wilde
"In your opinion, what is the best way to handle disappointment?” Expect it. Laugh about it. Try harder next time. - Ricky Gervais
Honestly, take a look around: the people who succeed are the ones too stupid to know how bad they are and keep working. - Austin Kleon
"I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination."-Alan Moore
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill
“I am orderly and disciplined with my daily life, so that I may be savage and original with my art.” Flaubert
"Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age" -Warren Buffet
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.-Charles Bukowski
"All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?" - Banksy
creativity begets creativity
"Those who can - do, those who can't - TROLL"
"Education is not preparation for life: Education is life itself." - John Dewey
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up".-- Thomas Edison ,"So I jabbed Tesla with my newly invented cattle prod and said, 'Invent me somethin' motherfu*ker!'"
