“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.”
“Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.”
“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
“Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.”
“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions”
“No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems”