Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Mereka yang setia hanya mengenal sisi kisah cinta yang dangkal. Orang yang tidak setialah yang mengetahui tragedi sebuah kisah cinta.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.