Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.