Quotes on Should

More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.

Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.