“Art only begins where Imitation ends.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.”

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”

“Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.”