One is oneself a fine consequence.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.