In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Gluttony is not a secret vice.