To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.