“The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.”

“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart”

“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

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

“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. ”

“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”

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