If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.