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 thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.