- "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal."
- "The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."
- "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
- "The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the man which creates."
- "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."
