Work Quotes
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.”
-- George W. Bush
“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
-- Thomas Aquinas