identity Quotes

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.