But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

You can never know enough about your characters

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.