Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 108: cited by Eugène Tardieu, 'Interview with Paul Gauguin,' in L'Écho de Paris, (13 May 1895)
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 108: cited by Eugène Tardieu, 'Interview with Paul Gauguin,' in L'Écho de Paris, (13 May 1895)
Yukio Mishima book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1959).
Context: What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed. You may ask what good it does us. Let's put it this way — human beings possess the weapon of knowledge in order to make life bearable. For animals such things aren't necessary. Animals don't need knowledge or anything of the sort to make life bearable. But human beings do need something, and with knowledge they can make the very intolerableness of life a weapon, though at the same time that intolerableness is not reduced in the slightest. That's all there is to it.
Simone de Beauvoir book The Ethics of Ambiguity
Pt. III : The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Ch. 3 : Freedom and Liberation]
The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Other chapters
Lucy Liu (1968) American actress and model
On how television differs from Liu’s other acting ventures in “Lucy Liu’s Independent Woman” https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/lucy-liu-elementary in Interview Magazine (2014 Oct 30)