Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.