
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.
Statement on the TV station Antenne 2 (6 May 1987)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.
“Through them [his paintings] I breathe again.”
Clyfford Still (1950) as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 145 : Statement for his 1950 show about his paintings
1950s
Context: A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in....
The Rosy Crucifixion I : Sexus (1949), Chapter 1. (New York: Grove Press, c1965, p. 17-18)
“I'm sweating scotch out of every pore in my body.”
You Can't Fix Stupid
“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”
Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues
“The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."”
Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics
Speech in Cleveland http://books.google.com/books?id=o3j10P6YFZIC&pg=PA1090&dq=%22nation's+honor+is+dearer+than+the+nation's+comfort%22 (January 1916)
1910s
Aaron Copland and His World, ISBN 9780691124704.