No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.