Great paintings shouldn’t be in museums. Have you ever been in a museum? Museums are cemeteries. Paintings should be on the walls of restaurants, in dime stores, in gas stations, in men’s rooms. Great paintings should be where people hang
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Benjamin Franklin
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
— Groucho Marx
Friends are God’s way of apologizing for your family.
- Bob Dylan, citando Wayne W. Dyer (The Power of Intention).
«(…) é impossível cantar à mesa dum escritório (…)
– Excerto de “Correio” por Manuel Alegre.
“How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? you stop wanting just that thing, you go numb, or you kill the agent of desire.”
– Jenny Holzer, da série Living.
“You should limit the number of times you act against your nature, (…) it’s interesting to test your capabilities for a while but too much will cause damage.”
– Jenny Holzer, da série Living.
” When travelling abroad in the continental style
it’s my belief one must attempt to be discreet ”
– Tom Waits, Foreign Affair, Foreign Affairs (1977)
” (…) we’re all just perfect strangers
as long as we ignore
that we all begin as strangers
just before we find
we really aren’t strangers anymore. ”
– Tom Waits, excerto de…
“Don’t you know there ain’t no Devil, There’s just God when He’s drunk.”
– Tom Waits, Heartattack And Vine, álbum homónimo de 1980
Lições de Pessoa
0“Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for. O êxito está em ter êxito, e não em ter condições de êxito. Condições de palácio tem qualquer terra larga, mas onde estará o…