Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.