butler Quotes

“The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.”

“I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.”

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

“The history of art is the history of revivals.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”

“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.”

“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”

“I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.”