"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."