She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.