Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Every great change is simple.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.