"Peculiar and not original."

"I have a horror of life, but I cling to it."

"Almighty God! —no, no! They heard! —they suspected! —they knew! —they were making a mockery of my horror! —this I thought, and this I think."

"Art is to look at not to criticize."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human integrity has been ruined by the fall, and that I am a member of the ruined species."