There are two great currents in the history of humanity: baseness, which makes conservatives; and envy, which makes revolutionaries. - Goncourt brothers

On a souvent essayé de définir le Beau en art. Ce que c'est? Le beau, est ce qui paraît abominable aux yeux sans éducation.

One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a more profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

S'il y a un Dieu, l'athéisme doit lui sembler une moindre injure que la religion.