Creativity

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks
- Simonides

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts; such is the duty of the artist
– Robert Schumann

Create like a God, command like a king, work like a slave – Constantin Brancusi

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of all the arts and the origin of marvels – Francisco Goya 

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality – Arthur Koestler

Social issues

Don’t shut your eyes, you’ll never become desensitised to violence that way
– Bart Simpson

We have met the enemy and they are ours – Oliver Hazard Perry

Prediction is a very difficult art, particularly when it involves the future
– Neils Bohr

A paradox is only the truth standing on its head to attract attention
– G. K Chesterton

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures in his lifetime, of these, 3000 are still in existence – Willhelm Von Bode 

Government and Politics

A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy - Benjamin Disraeli

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election
– Otto Von Bismark

The more you read about and observe about this politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other – Will Rogers

Life

Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes in dreams - Chief Smohlla

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician and to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference – Harry S. Truman

There is still no cure for the common birthday – John Glenn

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese – Louis Bunuel

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it was, what problems that really solves – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I have found some of the best reasons for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men  at the top – Frank More Colby