The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
I don’t like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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.