Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.