More From Herman Melville
- "Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
- "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
- "Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
More In Art
- "Barack Obama’s life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush’s tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street."― John Sununu
- "Every artist was first an amateur."― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "All art is quite useless."― Oscar Wilde