The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.