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.

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

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

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