Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.