It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.

Focus all your meals around high-quality animal protein. You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around which kind of protein you'll be eating.

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.