Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.