Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

All is lost save honor.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.