Anybody can be good in the country |
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it |
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success. |
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. |
Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. |
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. |
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing |
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. |
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. |
Art never expresses anything but itself. |
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. |
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. |
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back. |
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. |
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. |