The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Is human love the growth of the human will ?