"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." ― H. L. Mencken Topic(s): Art Tags: democracy More From H. L. Mencken "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." "It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man." "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier." More In Art "The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."― Paul Cezanne "Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art."― Jerry Saltz "It’s art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn’t about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – ‘contain multitudes.’"― Jerry Saltz