“Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.”

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

“Just take a look at our patrons, and you'll knowSome don't appreciate us, others never will.”

“There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character”

“It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.”

“God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.”

“Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”