I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.