All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.