If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.

Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled read more

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many read more

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . read more

For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.