Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.