To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

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

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

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.

I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.