What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

In fact, I am never wrong.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

To be popular I must be mediocre.