Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. – Laurence J. Peter

To us, who live in the nineteenth century, any century is a suitable subject for art except our own. The only beautiful things are things that do not concern us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. – Alfred North Whitehead