The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration!

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.