Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.
History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.
Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
