Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Originality provokes originality.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.