Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view…

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

— Robert Gottlieb

It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make…

— William H. Gass

“Overall, it seems that we have to accept that Western civilization will decline. It is, essentially, inevitable.”

— Bruce Charlton

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable…

— Sebastian Faulks

Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few…

— Amory Lovins

Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening…

— Michael Hudson

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

— Erma Bombeck

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

— Niall Ferguson

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

— Adam Smith

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for…

— Hector Ruiz

The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not…

— Lester R. Brown

Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may…

— Andrew Weil

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

— Theodore Martin

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin