Even things that are true can be proved.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.