Who said “The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”?

“Art is science made clear.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”

“The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”

“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”

“The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.”