The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.