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.

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

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

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