Art is both creation and recreation.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.