No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.