The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.