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

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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.