“The true and best way of learning any Art, is not to see a great many Examples done by another Person, but to possess ones seIf first of the Principles of it, and then to make them familiar, by exercising ones self in the Practice. Far it is Practice alone, that makes a Man perfect in any thing.”

“Practice makes perfect' is bullshit. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

“What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?”

“The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.”

“Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.”

“The mind is everything. It is in the mind alone that one feels pure and impure. A man, first of all, must make his own mind guilty and then alone can he see another man's guilt.”

“A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.”

“School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but if nobody's pefect why practice?”

“Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. From a photographic negative, for example, one can make any number of prints; to ask for the “authentic” print makes no sense. But the instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice – politics.”