Who said “PATRON — One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with…”?

“I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.”

“If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.”

“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”

“Language is the dress of thought.”

“The future is purchased by the present.”

“He who praises everybody, praises nobody.”

“I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.”

“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”