Men copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

—Richard Wright

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

—Richard Wright

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

—Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

—Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

—Steven Pinker