Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.