There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.