Source: Nothing to Lose But Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey With Murad
“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
“It doesn't makes sense. Why should we import (plywood)? Why not produce ourselves?”
On 1960s Indonesia exporting logs but importing plywood from neighbouring countries, keynote speech, Wharton Global Modular Course, May 25, 2015. http://www.inside-rge.com/Sukanto-Tanoto-Entrepreneur-Journey-1
2015
“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. Life doesn't make sense.”
Referring to title of an essay by Theodosius Dobzhansky
"Confessio Fidei" http://archive.org/stream/outspokenessays00ingeiala#page/24/mode/2up/search/I+have+never+understood+why+it+should+be+considered+derogatory+to+the+Creator+to+suppose+that+he+has+a+sense+of+humour, Outspoken Essays (Second Series) (1922)
“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”
Source: The Chrysalids
1950's, On Being a Graphic Artist', 1953
Context: As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses. These reality enthusiasts are possibly playing at hide-and-seek; at any rate they like to hide themselves, though they are not usually aware of it. They simply do it because they happen to have been born with a sense of reality, that is, with a great interest in so-called reality, and because man likes to forget himself.
