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. . . .

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite read more

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's 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

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.

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.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

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.