God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.