Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.