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

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.