To make something you have to be something.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.