One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.