Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you . . ."

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

"The foreground in a picture is always unattractive. . . Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love."

"Life is filigree work. . . . What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts."

"The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is."