Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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.