Go To Foreign Countries And You Will

As For What I Have Done As A Poet, I Take No Pride In Whatever. Excellent Poets Have Lived At The Same Time With Me, Poets More Excellent Lived Before Me, And Others Will Come After Me. But That In My Country I Am The Only Person Who Knows The Truth In The Difficult Science Of Colors-of That, I Say, I Am Not A Little Proud, And Here Have A Consciousness Of Superiority To Many.

The Greatest Evil That Can Befall Man Is That He Should Come To Think Ill Of Himself.

A Great Artist... Must Be Shaken By The Naked Truths That Will Not Be Comforted. This Divine Discontent, This Disequilibrium, This State Of Inner Tension Is The Source Of Artistic Energy.

Whenever I Hear People Talking About Liberal Ideas, I Am Always Astounded That Men Should Love To Fool Themselves With Empty Sounds. An Idea Should Never Be Liberal; It Must Be Vigorous, Positive, And Without Loose Ends So That It May Fulfill Its Divine Mission And Be Productive.

It Is The Great Triumph Of Genius To Make The Common Appear Novel.