💬 Quotes

"I saw in them the miserable, neglected children of the very poor, growing up in ignorance and vice, to be the burden and the terror of the State."

"As the ship glided quietly between the dark hills, which loomed upon the water like gigantic spectres, I felt a kind of sorrow that our journey was drawing to a close."

"Small curs are not regarded when they grin; but great men tremble when the lion roars."

"A day will come when York shall claim his own; and therefore I will take the gewgaws back."

"The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

"The game is afoot."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."

"You know my methods, Watson. Apply them, and it is extraordinary what a great deal you may grasp."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"I've knowed a many a smart man, but the peartest and sharpest and most uncommonest sassyest and slickest mister I ever run across was Aunt Sally."

"It was a mighty slim chance, but I didn't care; I'd played for slim chances before, and won 'em."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, because we have to stick to the possibilities in fiction; that's all I reckon."

"Well, it was a curious scrape, and I didn't see no good way out of it."

"Picasso's artistic development is not a linear progression from one style to another, but a simultaneous exploration of multiple modes of representation that constantly feed into and interrogate one another."

"In Cubism, the traditional window of the canvas is shattered, forcing the viewer to construct the subject from a multiplicity of viewpoints in time and space."

"For Picasso, the act of creation is inherently an act of destruction; to invent a new form, he had to dismantle the received conventions of visual tradition."

"The monstrous and the beautiful coexist in Picasso's late work, reflecting a profound tension between the vitality of creation and the inescapable reality of aging and mortality."

"Object and space are no longer treated as separate entities in Picasso's synthetic constructions; they are mutually constitutive, bound together by line and plane."