authenticity Quotes

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.