"A man cannot speak but he judges..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.”

“Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.”

“Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.”

“The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.”

“As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.”

“When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.”

“As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.”

“Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?”

“Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.”