The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

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.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.