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
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn’t do, companies we didn’t buy. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
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 tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
