Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.