If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.
I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.