Time (July 15, 1985)
“I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”
“I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.”
Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4 June 1837)
“That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“Live the Dream, Dream the Fish”
written on reverse of Dreamfish CD, 1993.
“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
"Andrea del Sarto", line 70
"Less is more" is often misattributed to architects Buckminster Fuller or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It is something of a motto for minimalist philosophy. It was used in 1774 by Christoph Martin Wieland.
Men and Women (1855)
Context: I do what many dream of, all their lives,
— Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive — you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat —
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) — so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
There burns a truer light of God in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.
