“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.""I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.”

“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”

“Of course, I should have got rid of you. I should have shaken you out of my life as a man shakes from his raiment a thing that has stung him.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”