Quotations from the seventh and eighth weeks of 2013

Despite much reading (including a really poorly written/translated book about Cezanne) and writing over the last two weeks, there has not been a particularly quotable quotation (well, nothing I've written down).  So I'm making up some of my own.

"The image of the tortured artist is inaccurate.  We are all tortured, but the artist has the patience and skill to articulate it."

"Life is bitter.  This makes alcohol taste so sweet."

"The sign of a good musician is showing how few notes you need to play."

That last one is something I posted to Twitter which is a much more relaxed, frivolous, and artistic attempt at social media.  It's not all about poop, but a lot of it is.

Quotations from the sixth week of 2013

Concerning St. Valentine's day:

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

--Aldous Huxley

Concerning the day after St. Valentine's Day:

"Can I be as I believe myself or as others believe me to be?  Here is where these lines become a confession in the presence of my unknown and unknowable me, unknown and unknowable for myself.  Here is where I create the legend wherein I must bury myself."

--Miguel de Unamuno

Quotations from the second week of 2013

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius.  You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."

--Gertrude Stein

"Successful people do the things that others don't want to do."

--NBC golf commentator and former PGA Tour golfer Johnny Miller's father

Quotations from the first week of 2013

You're cute and smart, and you've gotten everything you've ever asked for, and that makes you lazy and dangerous.

- Sherman Alexie - "The Search Engine"

In a thousand years' time who will care what they looked like?

- Michelangelo

No, the tranquil desert island, the solitary paradise doesn't exist.  One would be quickly bored there because one would have no problems.

- Matisse

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

- Emerson