Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

If you haven't had your life what have you had?

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.