It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

All good work looks perfectly modern: a piece of Greek sculpture, a portrait of Velasquez—they are always modern, always of our time.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter, who on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

»Sind nicht die Armen und die Reichen Brüder?« fragte der junge König.»Ja,« antwortete der Mann, »und der Name des reichen Bruders ist Kain.«

the King gave orders that the page's salary was to be doubled. As he received no salary at all this was not of much use to him, but it was considered a great honor, and was duly published in the Court Gazette.

Le donne ci ispirano il desiderio di far dei capolavori e ci impediscono sempre di eseguirli