"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."

"Artist should be left alone to paint or not to paint, write or not to write."

"Only a few years after the permanent settlement of Virginia, some fifty missionaries arrived to begin the m…"

"My old landscapes of Pennsylvania are worth so much now that I have to hide them, so I don't get put in an …"

"In 2014, our Western colleagues “swallowed” the anti-constitutional armed coup in Ukraine, and since then t…"

"We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its bree…"

"Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll o…"