You don’t make art out of good intentions.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!