Autism Art Quotes

#1. Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~

Eileen Miller

#2. Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Even monsters are beautiful.

Alastair Reynolds

#4. Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. I wish my prose to be transparent-I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.

V.S. Naipaul

#6. Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.

Eileen Miller

#7. He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

Colum McCann

#8. In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.

Eileen Miller

#9. It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

Hans Asperger

#10. Curing autism would be the same as "curing" science and art.

Kristine Barnett

#11. Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

Jill Hennessy

#12. If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Beck

#14. I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

Michael Dirda

#15. I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

Alan Alda

#16. Politics is history in the present tense.

John Avlon

#17. All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere

#18. Somebody once said it's the SOUL that matters

Michael Jackson

#19. I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

Temple Grandin

#20. I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

Emily Dickinson

#21. My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism is the only thing they think about. I'd rather have them think about, you know, some art work they were gonna do or some science they wanted to do.

Temple Grandin

#22. Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Temple Grandin

#23. I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. However, now I need to get out of bed and so things may become more difficult.

Sylvia Boorstein