Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.