Eric > Eric's Quotes

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
― Charles Dickens

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso

“I love treason but hate a traitor.”
― Julius Caesar

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

“Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!”
― Groucho Marx

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.”
― Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger / Mario und der Zauberer

“It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”
― Mick Jagger

“Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.”
― Keith Richards

“Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993. However, it certainly appears that the main thing the Internet has accomplished is the normalization of amateur pornography. There is no justification for the amount of naked people on the World Wide Web, many of whom are clearly (clearly!) doing so for non-monetary reasons. Where were these people fifteen years ago? Were there really millions of women in 1986 turning to their husbands and saying, 'You know, I would love to have total strangers masturbate to images of me deep-throating a titanium dildo, but there's simply no medium for that kind of entertainment. I guess we'll just have to sit here and watch Falcon Crest again.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
― Pablo Picasso