How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.
Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.
I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
I want to be alone. . . I just want to be alone.
A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.
Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors.
I have a strong temperament, but our country needs a strong temperament.
[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics. "
What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.