Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.