One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
“The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.”
“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”
“Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.”
“I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.”
“An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.”
“The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.”
“Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.”
“So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”
“Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.”
