For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

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

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.