But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
Robert Louis StevensonI never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?
Robert Louis StevensonA proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.
Robert Louis StevensonYou start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.
Robert Louis Stevenson