A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

I wish that I was where I am.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.