No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
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.