The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.