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.

there are only two eras of any importance in the world's history. The first is the appearance of a new medium for art, and the second is the appearance of a new personality for art also.

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

There is nothing that Art cannot express [...] I can now re-create life in a way that was hidden from me before. "A dream of form in days of thought"

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.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.