The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Only love can keep anyone alive.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.