All art is at once surface and symbol.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.