I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.