True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
