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

“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.”

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

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”

“One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

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