Derek R. Audette Quotes
Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!
The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.
The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.
No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable
The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.
There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'
Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.
More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.
No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't
An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.
Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"
One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be.
Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.
Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.
An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.
Those who are offended by something are most often those who deserve to be offended by it.
If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.