Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.