Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

Art should never be popular.