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

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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

Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.