In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.