I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.