Art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

Love is a more wonderful thing than art. They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.