Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.