“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.” ArtPlayPainLife IsSufferingMorningStudyGoes OnGet UpCrapWorth LivingPain And Suffering Author:Brian Sutton-Smith
“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.” NeedsWritingBookLife IsStudyOur LivesSpeechOpen Book Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?"” HumorMightFunnyLife IsStudyHumourGlassesCollectionsVillageSectionsEarnestNew YorkersAssistantsBookstoresCampusGrannyGreenwichGreenwich Village Author:Keith Waterhouse
“If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.” IfsMenHumansArtWholeEarthLife IsAnimalStudyWiseFiguresPolicyMoonDrawsAspectSeasonsIntelligentDistancePlantWideGrassToo ShortBladesLife Is Too ShortCountrysidePhilosophicBlades Of GrassJapanese ArtBismarck Author:Vincent Van Gogh