The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar. . . you never know.
Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it.