If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

A burnt child loves the fire.

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.