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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Author: Henry Adams

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad like the season and infinite in wealth and depth of tone but never hustled.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one's own.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

Friends are born not made.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong I am inclined to agree with him.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned especially if he has doubts about it himself.

All experience is an arch to build upon.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.