“Popularität setzt immer Mittelmäßigkeit voraus.”

“Die Frauen, hat einmal ein witziger Franzose gesagt, regen uns an, Meisterwerke zu schaffen, und hindern uns immer daran, sie auszuführen.”

“For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.”

“Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity.”

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”

“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m”

“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”