The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.