God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

(Dancing is) a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.