I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
The object of art is to give life shape.
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.