When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
I don’t play accurately – any one can play accurately – but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people – that is all!
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.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
The final mystery is oneself.
Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.