"No artist is ever morbid. The artist..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”

“The proper school to learn art is not life but art”

“What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”

“I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.”

“Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.”

“It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.”

“Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.”

“I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.”

“I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”