Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

To understand everything makes one very indulgent.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Speech happens to not be his language.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.