What Is The Beautiful, If Not The

To Be Simple Is No Small Matter.

Concern For Morality Makes Every Work Of The Imagination False And Stupid.

Axiome: La Haine Du Bourgeois Est Le Commencement De La Vertu. Axiom: Hatred Of The Bourgeois Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

The Cult Of Art Gives Pride; One Never Has Too Much Of It.

Criticism Occupies The Lowest Place In The Literary Hierarchy: As Regards Form, Almost Always; And As Regards Moral Value, Incontestably. It Comes After Rhyming Games And Acrostics, Which At Least Require A Certain Inventiveness.