Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.