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

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.