Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

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

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.