Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
A joke is a very serious thing.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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