Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.