I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.