It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching