Bad artists always admire each others work.

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.

It's the spectator$$$ and not life$$$ that art really mirrors.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I like talking to a brick wall - it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.