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

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.