In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

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

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

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.

Greatness demands great courage.

As for diet, there is no biblical diet that is required for God’s people today as there was in the Old Testament.

i miss my brother likethe sea would miss saltif that were taken away.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

I love having my hair back. It is so important to how you feel, how you dress, how you look.

Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

He's got a ring, so I'm taking home the trophy.