Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.