"The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart."
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."
"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."