Work Quotes
“That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.”
“I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.”
-- Aung San Suu Kyi
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
-- Thornton Wilder
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
-- Margaret Mead
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
-- Jean Cocteau