He has a simple and a beautiful nature...Don't spoil him. Don't try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in it. Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm it possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.

You have a dreamer's look; you must not dream. It is only sick people who dream.

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream--I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal--to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The

Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound

Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.... A new Hedonism--that is what our century wants.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Whatever you focus on expands.

Currently, our minds are devoted to things we do not want. Our positive intentions occupy but a tiny sliver of our minds. The rest is focused on the problems we hope the intentions will eliminate. The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven.