I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his abi... - Oscar Wilde

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."

"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."