And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy.

Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it's started to come back to me.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

Security breeds stagnation.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

This aggression will not stand

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.