Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

The body is more drest then the soule.

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

You can't become a leader in one conference.

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.