I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.

If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.