The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
From Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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