Yasumasa Quotes

#1. Art is to look at not to criticize.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. ... those were the subjects that Barber dealt with as a historian, and no matter how scrupulous and profession he was in treating them, there was always a personal motive behind his work, a secret conviction that he was somehow digging into the mysteries of his own life.

Paul Auster

#4. I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

Tom Hayden

#5. I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

Bill Bruford

#6. A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Thomas Hobbes

#7. You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#8. Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. In the end it seems we're just toys, easy to break and hard to mend.

Mark Lawrence

#10. ...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

Terrence Real

#11. Art is basically entertainment,

Yasumasa Morimura

#12. I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

Rick Santorum

#13. Yes, Mrs. Todd, a bonny, bouncing baby girl." Sylvie thought

Kate Atkinson

#14. Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

Yasumasa Morimura

#15. Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.

Cheikh Anta Diop