We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.