“After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?”

“You don't need to show them to me [the notes of the complete interview which Christian Zervos], editor of 'Cahiers d'Art' showed Picasso after their conversations at Boisgeloup: Picasso's country place then]. The essential thing in our period of weak morale is to create enthusiasm. How many people have actually read Homer? All the same the whole world talks of him. In this way the Homeric legend is created. A legend in this sense provokes a valuable stimulus. Enthusiasm is what we need most, we and the younger generation.”

“Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?”

“Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.”

“Valmiki (14th - 15th century B. C.), the author of the epic Ramayana, bears comparison with Homer.”

“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”

“Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)”

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”

“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”

“876. One houre's sleepe before midnight is worth three after.”