Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.