“If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella.”
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
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Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Niewolnik marzy o wolności, człowiek wolny o bogactwie, bogacz o władzy, a władca o wolności.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“The first true love is always the last one.”
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Banksyhttp://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2018739.stm
Variant: Some people want to make the world a better place. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Other sources <br class="br">Source: Banksy In His Own Words- Interview At The Sun https://web.archive.org/web/20181102203920/http://graffart.eu/blog/2010/09/banksy-in-his-own-words-interview-at-the-sun/, Graffart.eu, Retrieved 2 November 2018
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Other sources
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Context: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
“Who kindly sets a wand'rer on his way
Does e'en as if he lit another's lamp by his:
No less shines his, when he his friend's hath lit.”
Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat facit;
Nihilo minus ipsi lucet, cum illi accenderit.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XVI - translation by Walter Miller
“As a strong horse that has often won on the last lap at Olympia is now resting, tired out by old age.”
Sicut fortis equus, spatio qui saepe supremo
Vicit Olympia, nunc senio confectus quiescit.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter V (tr. K. Volk)
“Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I fly, living, through the mouths of men.”
Nemo me lacrumis decoret neque funera fletu
faxit. Cur? volito vivos per ora virum.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, chapter XV, section 34
“Neither you nor any man alive shall do this unpunished: no, you shall give recompense to me with your life-blood.”
Nec pol homo quisquam faciet inpune animatus
hoc nec tu; nam mi calido dabis sanguine poenas.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia; Book VI, Chapter I
Compare: Tu tamen interea calido mihi sanguine poenas persolves amborum, Virgil, Aeneid, Book IX, line 422
“There is no fellowship inviolate,
no faith is kept, when kingship is concerned.”
Nulla sancta societas
Nec fides regni est.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis Book I, Chapter VIII - translation by Walter Miller
Variant translation: To kingship belongs neither sacred fellowship nor faith.
“Fortune is given to brave men.”
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book VI, Chapter I
“And earth who herself bestowed the body takes it back and wastes not a whit.”
Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam
capere neque dispendi facere hilum.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Varro in De Lingua Latina, Book V
“He who has conquered is not conqueror
Unless the conquered one confesses it.”
Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Marcus Servius Honoratus in In Vergilii carmina comentarii (Commentaries on the poems of Virgil), Book XI https://web.archive.org/web/20141219124307/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053%3Abook%3D11%3Acommline%3D306