
“If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.”
Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 2 (p. 13)
As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010) http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Latest_News/Latest_News/Mengistu_blames_Meles_for_helping_Eritrea_at_UN_to_split_Ethiopia/33629
“If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.”
Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 2 (p. 13)
“His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names.”
Monumenta fatiscunt:<br/>mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
Monumenta fatiscunt:
mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
"Epitaphia" 31: De Nomine Cuiusdam Lucii Sculpto in Marmore, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 159.
“Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.”
“Today we're going to try and say his name…OH! OHHH! Can you even say a part of his name--OH! OHHH!”
Louder Than Hell (1986)