It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

There is not a dream which may not come true, if we have the energy which makes, or chooses, our own fate.... It is only the dreams of those light sleepers who dream faintly that do not come true.

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He must have the passion of a lover.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.