“The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

“Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

“Trust the tale, not the teller.”

“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”

“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”

“Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.”