There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?