Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Duty is what one expects from others.

America is not a country, it is a world.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.