If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.