Always be a little unexpected.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.