Natalie Clifford Barney Art Quotations

If only art were as rare as good taste ...

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.