A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.