Don't Try So Much To Form Your

Art Requires, Above All Things, A Suppression Of Self, A Subordination Of One's Self To An Idea.

Make (the Reader) Think The Evil, Make Him Think It For Himself, And You Are Released From Weak Specifications. My Values Are Positively All Blanks, Save So Far As An Excited Horror, A Promoted Pity, A Created Expertness... Proceed To Read Into Them More Or Less Fantastic Figures.

I Have Lived Too Long In Foreign Parts

Little By Little, Even With Other Cares, The Slowly But Surely Working Poison Of The Garden-mania Begins To Stir In My Long-sluggish Veins.

What Is Character But The Determination Of Incident? What Is Incident But The Illustration Of Character?