To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

America is a lunatic asylum.

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

Presentation, not reference.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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