A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.