Craig Brown Quotes

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

It is futile to go against human nature.

With some things, it's not that I like doing them; it's more that I like having done them. I like to look back and see that I've made a nice thing.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

There are 7 billion people on the planet. Pretty much everyone is doing sex. It's not like you need to order the "baby-starter kit" on Amazon. Instincts will come to you at the weirdest places and times.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.