"Art if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of de…"

"I have serviced no kings, yet I wager that I can shave a cheek with ten times more dexterity than any street mountebank!"

"When the technical problems of finger dexterity have been solved, it is too late to add musicality, phrasing and musi…"

"I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dex…"

"Yet what makes the show what it is - a truly mesmerising theatrical event that should live forever in the memory - is…"

"Stonehenge, neither for disposition or ornament has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses, set on end and pi…"

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of charact…"

"One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beauti…"

"When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision o…"

"He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand t…"