Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.