Art never expresses anything but itself.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

The secret of life is in art.

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