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.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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

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

A work of art is an exaggeration.