When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Time is a waste of money.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.