The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.