When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.

It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in exchange for the inferiority he confesses to.

Celebrities are always put on a pedestal,

Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.