No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he d... - Oscar Wilde

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

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

"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."

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