Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
Normal people do not create art.