"Art creates an incomparable and unique effect,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!”

“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”

“He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.”

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”

“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”

“The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.”

“At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?”

“Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.”

“We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!”