What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
A great artist is never poor.
There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
He who hesitates is poor.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.