And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

Art is the signature of man.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Passion makes every detail important.