A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

History is only gossip.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.