“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity” — George Orwell ’Politics and the English Language’

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“A wise person knows when and how to improvise.” — Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom

“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.” ― Albert Camus

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” - Charles Mingus

Most excellent TED talk: Denis Dutton’s Darwinian Theory of Beauty animated by Andrew Park

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.” — Publilius Syrus (42 BC)

“If there are no innocents in any struggle, then let us give up the cause of humanity.” — Wole Soyinka

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. — André Breton

“What about the scene in the studio where an unemployed seamstress poses as a goddess in front of a painter who works on an empty stomach. Talk about prostitution in art! Think how many artists produce works of bad taste against their will. Works that are too sweet or too pious so that those who have been stealing all day can rest their eyes on a nicely painted arse, or, after stuffing themselves, enrich their lives with a pretty still-life or a nymph.” — František Kupka, 1902