“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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