The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.