What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.