Peter Adolphsen > Quotes

“Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.”
― Peter Adolphsen, The Brummstein

“Art was the jewel in the crown of civilization and by promoting art its natural ideals, truth and beauty, would spread into any corner of society like ripples in the water. "Protect art. It's the antidote to the innate barbarium of the human race".”
― Peter Adolphsen, The Brummstein

“Old age, exhaustion, hunger, happiness —any one of them can kill you".”
― Peter Adolphsen, The Brummstein

“Mark Twain resorted to another image: if the full height of the Eiffel Tower represents the Earth’s age, then the human race appears as the final coat of paint on the knob at the very top is applied. The journalist with the toothbrush moustache went on to ask the logical follow-up question, but he was, however, reluctant to answer it: Was the tower built for the sole purpose of applying this one coat of paint?”
― Peter Adolphsen