Popular Quotes from Great Minds

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.