The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.