Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.