The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.