“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”
“I abstain from the people who consider insolence bravery and tenderness cowardice. And I abstain from those who consider chatter wisdom and silence ignorance.”
“A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”
“I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands, but he didn’t even flush!”
“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.”
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”