#Rather

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."

"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance."

"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

"I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me."

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

"They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness."

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."

"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained"

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

"I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one."

"My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse."

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

"The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives."