#imbecile

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#because #call #essence #exterior #idea

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. ↗

— Rosa Bonheur

#imbeciles #me #never

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#i #imbeciles #prefer #rest #rogues

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#behaves #clever #imbecile #like #man

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#damn #damn fool #fool #gullible #imaginative