Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.