Inspirational Quotes

"We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my own pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Pablo Picasso

"Painters, do not fear imperfection. You will never achieve it! If you are mediocrities, you may try as you will to paint terribly badly, but people will still see that you are mediocre."

Salvidor Dali

Salvidor = Saviour. He saved art from the threat of dadaism, academic surrealism and abstract.

"One should respect everything one does not understand"

Salvidor Dali

"There is always one escape into wickedness. Always do the things that shock and wound people"

Salvidor Dali

"If the gods didn't exist we would have to invent them. We, as a species are too susceptible to the warm comforting lie of an ideology to stay out in the cold wind of uncertainty for any any length of time"

It is wrong to place out faith in such things, for we must remember that such things are at best an illusion and at worst a lie. Life is rich, varied and complex and ideologies are what Isaacs describes as " subjective and distilled and therefore very dangerous

People are very quick to devalue countries that are so called 'third world' or undeveloped. Yet in many ways these societies have evolved things that are far more advanced than the passage of time we're going through now.

Wittgenstein

"we feel that even if all possible scientific questions could be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this the answer, the solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem.

Modern science is scientifically proving itself to be unscientific. As it incorporates into itself the concepts of irrationality, chaos, probability and uncertainty, science increasingly reveals itself to be alogical.