“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”

“Make up to a good one and marry here, and your life will become much more interesting.”

“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. ”

“Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.”

“Keep making the movements of life.”

“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? … I haven’t done so enough before—and now I'm too old; too old at any rate for what I see. … What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that. … Still, we have the illusion of freedom; therefore don't be, like me, without the memory of that illusion. I was either, at the right time, too stupid or too intelligent to have it; I don’t quite know which. Of course at present I'm a case of reaction against the mistake. … Do what you like so long as you don't make my mistake. For it was a mistake. Live!”

“There's nothing so magnificent - for making others feel you - as to have no imagination.”