You are the sum total of your choices.
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.
Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.
I do not admit. . . that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. . . by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race. . . has come in and taken its place.
If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.
While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.