The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

My reputation grows with every failure.