Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.