• I rarely think that anything I write is true.
• I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
• People are never more trivial as when they take themselves very seriously.
• Nothing pains me except stupidity.
• Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
• Criticism is the highest form of autobiography.
• The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
• One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
• The people of America understand money-making, but not how to spend it.
• Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art.
• A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are nonexistent.
• Those whom the gods hate die old.
• Nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.
• Everybody who is incapable oflearning has taken to teaching.
• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
•Time is waste of money.
• The more the public is interested in artists, the less it is interested in art.
• The personality of the artists is not a thing the public should know anything about.
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
• America has never quite forgiven Europe for
•having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
• The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
• I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
• California is an Italy without its art.
• While in London one hides everything, in Paris one reveals everything.
• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
• Every effect that one produce gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
• Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
• The happiness of a married man ... depends on the people he has not married.
• The only person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
•Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
• Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners
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