Thiruppathi Muthukumar

“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it….”
― The School of Life, How to Find Love

“PERFECTION The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pounds of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“ஒருத்தனிடம் நம் துயரத்தைப் பகிர்ந்துகொள்ள நினைத்துச் சொல்லும்போது, கேட்பவன் அதே அளவு இல்லை எனினும், அப்படிச் சில வேதனைகளைத் தன் வாழ்வில் கடந்தவனாகவேனும் இருந்தாக வேண்டும். அப்படி இல்லாத யாரிடமும், இவற்றைச் சொல்லி என்ன ஆகிவிடப்போகிறது என்று நினைத்து, கோபால் யாதவ் அமைதியானான்.”
― சந்தோஷ் ஏச்சிக்கானம்

“படைப்பு என்பது அர்ப்பணிப்பின் விளைவு”
― Jeyamohan