“All art is quite useless.”

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.