Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
We women adore failures. They lean on us.
Don't use big words. They mean so little.
The best people to work for are me, myself and I.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.