For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow