I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.