Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

All art is quite useless.