Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.' 'Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know,' cried Lord Henry, laughing. His world was possibility and he knew it. The world in which we lived was without boundaries.