Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley
Mason Cooleywas an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
art avant-garde care
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
art totems lost
Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.
art pedants nudity
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
change art works-of-art
Every work of art changes its predecessors.
art seductive chaos
Art can make chaos seductive.
art self hypocrisy
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.
art believe people
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
art sex drug
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
running artist
The aphorist is a hit and run artist.
art new-york sex
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
art age antiques
In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
money art sex
Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.
love art technique
In love as in art, good technique helps.
love art stills
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.