Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.