Quotes for the Day


"To be an artist is not to be a member of a secret society; it is not an activity inscrutably
forbidden to the majority of mankind.

Even the clumsiest, ugliest and most ignorant lovers make love; and what is important is the oneness of man in making artefacts, not the abyss said to exist between a Leonardo and the average of mankind.

We are not all to be Leonardos; but of the same kind as Leonardo, for genius is only one end of the scale.

I climbed Parnassus once, and between the mundane village of Arachova at the foot and the lonely summit, quite as lovely as the poets have always had it to be, there is nothing but a slope; no abyss, no gulf, no place where wings are necessary."

John Fowles


"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel.

Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

John Lennon


"Art, on the other hand, . . . is not cognitive, but rather emotive in its import.

Its function is to stimulate, express, or vent emotions rather than to describe reality".

Israel Scheffler