One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A... - Oscar Wilde

"The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart."

"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."

"So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray."

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."