Archive for September, 2007

Andy Warhol on Business

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.

- Andy Warhol

W. H. Auden on Music

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

- W. H. Auden

G. Gordon Liddy on History

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

- G. Gordon Liddy

Billie Jean King on Sports

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

- Billie Jean King

Paul Cezanne on Art

Friday, September 28th, 2007

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

- Paul Cezanne

Paul Valery on Politics

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

- Paul Valery

Isaac Bashevis Singer on Art

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Billy Graham on Sports

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

- Billy Graham

Alex Cox on Movies

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Spielberg isn’t a filmmaker, he’s a confectioner.

- Alex Cox

Doug Larson on Politics

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

- Doug Larson