What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.