I never travel without my sketch book.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Albert Camus

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Aeschylus

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Derek Walcott

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Pablo Picasso

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Salvador Dali

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Carol P. Christ

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

Dustin Diamond

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Dag Hammarskjold