Art is the objectification of feeling....

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.