Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.