Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?