Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated, just as for a mother the cause of sexual conception is love. The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life, as the consequence of a wife's love is the birth of a new man into life. The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength. What is art?

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Julius Caesar

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. Twilight of the Idols

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Les Misérables