"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the ar…"

"I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am."

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"