Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.