“A mask tells us more than a face.”

“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m”

“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

“Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!”