A gentleman never offends unintentionally

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.