The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p

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.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.