There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.