It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

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

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.