His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don’t hurt another’s physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
Immanuel isn’t a pun; he Kant be!
All criticism is a form of autobiography.
Nature is always behind the age.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.