This is here so you can see how text looks on a page. Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it facinating. Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.