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I very seldom read back into what I've written.
One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.
I know well that happiness is in little things.
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
When we build, let us think that we build forever.
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.
[A kitten] gets himself into every kind of trouble.
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
People cannot live by lending money to one another.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past.
It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.
He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.
Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.
There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
Not without design does God write the music of our lives.
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
The best work never was and never will be done for money.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.
There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.