No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Men become old, but they never become good.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.