Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts |
Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece |
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. |
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. |
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison. |
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. |
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves |