It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.
Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.
I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.
I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days
Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.
Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.