Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Nature is always behind the age

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.