Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of mans cruelty and baseness. – Bryant H. McGill
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb – where the word art never came up – to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it. – Jerry Saltz
The soul of the artist is oppressed by the atmosphere of the counting-house. – Franz von Dingelstedt, Die Amazone: Novelle, 1869, translated from German by J.M
