Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful