The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver

What do I look like? A blonde rolodex for boys who've lost an archery match with cupid?

Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

I've actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

A new music is a new mind.