Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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.

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.