In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.