I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

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.

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation.

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.