A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.