Fokkens Painting Quotes & Sayings

The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being. — Ashley Montagu

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand. — Edward Hirsch

The Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is whether it is true. He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer's development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (specially by the learned man's own colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the "present state of the question. — C.S. Lewis

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis. — Rhys Ifans

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false. — Austin Osman Spare

The measure of a design is how easily it accommodates changes. With no changes, it's a runner who never leaves the starting line. — Robert Nystrom