Achievement Quote by Patricia Highsmith

“As I get older I can see the patterns, the ugly corporate face behind the great machine. The sad and over competitive urge to…

— R.M. Engelhardt

We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.

— Theodore Zeldin

“Wesley's touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we are both…

— Victoria Schwab

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals…

— R.M. Engelhardt

There is a natural and inviolable tendency in things to bloom into whatever they truly are in the core of their being. All we…

— David Richo

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

— Vicente del Bosque

“Herbert Allen Jr. had convinced himself that appearances were important. Having calculated incorrectly around the first of the year that the press coverage would…

— David McClintick

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

— Dominic Smith

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the…

— Charles Babbage

I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

— Nelson Rodrigues

“Would you not like to fill up a whole note-book at the street crossings when you see a forger borne along upon the necks…

— Juvenal