The artist is a child of his time, but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science, is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life, in ordered to find the peace and the security, which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.