Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

I’m happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I’m not into sequins!

We have much to hope from the flowers.