“Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.”
“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.”
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”
“The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching,' he said. 'The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”