Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

The secret of life is in art.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.