What did H.L. Mencken mean by: It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA Copy
+ Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. Feraz Zeid, January 29, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Decent, Government, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Adultery is the application of democracy to love. Feraz Zeid, September 19, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Adultery, Democracy, Love, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Judge, Law, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. Feraz Zeid, February 5, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Flowers, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. Feraz Zeid, February 22, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Body, Force, Temptation, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Death, Woman, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. Feraz Zeid, March 26, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Dog, Fleas, Theory, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Age, Dignity, Lie, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
