“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”

“A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.”

“Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.”

“A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.”

“The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)”

“It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”