The Art Of Mastering Life

Children Also Have Artistic Ability, And There Is Wisdom In There Having It! The More Helpless They Are, The More Instructive Are The Examples They Furnish Us; And They Must Be Preserved Free Of Corruption From An Early Age.

I Want To Be As Though New-born, Knowing Nothing, Absolutely Nothing About Europe.

Genius Is The Error In The System.

Reduction! One Wants To Say More Than Nature And One Makes The Impossible Mistake Of Wanting To Say It With More Means Than She, Instead Of Fewer.

First Of All, The Art Of Living; Then As My Ideal Profession, Poetry And Philosophy, And As My Real Profession, Plastic Arts; In The Last Resort, For Lack Of Income, Illustrations.