There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

When the business people get done with the arts, all that’s left will be entertainment.

This is the shape I'm in for the tournament. I feel or I felt extremely good before the match, and I did train very, very hard to get ready for the tournament.

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.

I'll start with small things.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.