The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.