Quotes

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

And though she be but little, she is fierce.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated.

It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know,

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

All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view.

To define is to limit.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about a man's work that I am stirred up.

A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul;

Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good,

Remember that all is but opinion and conceit,