History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.