The curves of your lips rewrite history.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.