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.

Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them

The secret of life is in art.