Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
Lin YutangA cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.
Lin YutangWhen we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.
Lin YutangProbably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
Lin Yutang