"To my mind the old masters are..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.”

“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.”

“The value of a good idea is in using it.”

“The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

“What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.”

“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.”

“What is the use of a new-born child ?”

“Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.”

“When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.”