"What a strange vanity painting is; it..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”

“La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.”

“Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.”

“Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.”

“I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”

“For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart”

“The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.”

“All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart asequal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring todiscover to you.”

“Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.”