Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance..

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by eve….

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid..

The object of art is to give life shape..

Saintliness is also a temptation..

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it..

Things are beautiful if you love them..

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless..

The true masters of the art of living are already happy..

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth..