Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.