Max Nordau Quotes

"If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly."
- Max Nordau
(Related: Respect, Trouble)

"It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse."
- Max Nordau

"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."
- Max Nordau
(Related: Idea, Artist, Burden, Feeling, Mind)