Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life’s lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
If I hadn’t believed it, then I wouldn’t have seen it.
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
Time is a waste of money.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.