Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.