"No art ever survived censorship; no art..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.”

“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”

“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”

“Art made tongue-tied by authority.”

“Art is a step in the known toward the unknown”

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

“I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.”

“One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.”

“As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.”