A woman once told me that every time she wore Lanvin, men fell in love with her. I told her, “Ugh, I hope next time you will tell me that every time you wear Lanvin, you fall in love.” And she said, “What is the difference?” Passive and active.
I have made the following discovery and I pass it on to the world: The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from utilitarian objects. I believed that with this discovery I was bringing joy to the world; it has not thanked me. People were sad and hung their heads […] Then I said: Weep not! See, therein lies the greatness of our age, that it is incapable of producing a new ornament.
But anyone who goes to the Ninth Simphony and then sits down and designs a wallpaper pattern is either a confidence trickster or a degenerate […] Anyone who goes around in a velvet coat today is not an artist but a buffoon or a house painter.
Freedom from ornament is a sign of spiritual strenght.
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Jeremy Paxman is paid nearly £1,000,000 to come on television and sneer at democracy.
Two hours later, his manager told reporters: “He’s still crying. We’re making him drink water because he’s becoming dehydrated.”
Last year, a German team revealed that magpies, marked with a coloured sticker under their beaks, tried to remove it when presented with a mirror.
There’s a bench quite far down in front of the London bridge. If you sit there and look straight at the bridge at sunset, it looks really pretty because it sort of blends in but stands out quite clearly as well. Hardly anyone knows about it: it’s my own secret thing and I just sit there and look.