
“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.”
— Manet to Monet, on Renoir

“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.”
— Manet to Monet, on Renoir
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” — Borges
“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.” — Montesquieu
“No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.” — John Adams

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” — Iris Murdoch
“I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius; in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede — not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won’t count up to fourteen.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” — Willa Cather

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.” — Salvador Dali

“He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters.” — James I