How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.