Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

To love and to labor is the sum of living.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.