Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.