It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. - Oscar Wilde

"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

"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."