What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in dis... - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

"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."

"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!"