1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.