The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

The heart was made to be broken.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.