Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.