It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

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

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

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.