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

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Credit is a young man's capital.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.