Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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.