""Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.”

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

“Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.”

“What matters in art is not thinking but making.”

“On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.”

“A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”

“What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.”

“And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.”

“One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.”