Baruther Quotes & Sayings

You really can't bring about anything new with art. — Martin Kippenberger

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without,
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
Knows the high art of what and how to read. — John Godfrey Saxe

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields. — Rose George

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. — George Santayana

Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious — Ann Brashares

To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit. — Henry David Thoreau

She is a human being capable of conscious thought, which is a complete fucking miracle, and she is beautiful and we are lucky that she is on the planet with us. — John Green