The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.
Tag: The Picture of Dorian Gray
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Being natural is simply a pose.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.