"Art moves. Hence its civilizing power...." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.”

“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”

“People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.”

“Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.”

“And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.”

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”

“Marry above thy match and you will get a master.”

“The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.”

“It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.”