It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way.

In the depths of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much only as we possess.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.