A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.

Killers are clever, victims are the people which are scare from the negativity. That's how it goes and it will go.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.