All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.