The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Always be a little unexpected.
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.