The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.