To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works