Art, Like Morality, Consists In Drawing The

'my Country, Right Or Wrong' Is A Thing No Patriot Would Ever Think Of Saying Except In A Desperate Case. It Is Like Saying 'my Mother, Drunk Or Sober.'

Realism Is Simply Romanticism That Has Lost Its Reason...that Is Its Reason For Existing.

A Dead Thing Goes With The Stream, But Only A Living Thing Can Go Against It.

Men Can Construct A Science With Very Few Instruments, Or With Very Plain Instruments; But No One On Earth Could Construct A Science With Unreliable Instruments. A Man Might Work Out The Whole Of Mathematics With A Handful Of Pebbles, But Not With A Handful Of Clay Which Was Always Falling Apart Into New Fragments, And Falling Together Into New Combinations. A Man Might Measure Heaven And Earth With A Reed, But Not With A Growing Reed.

You Don't Want To Be So Open Minded That Your Brains Fall Out!