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.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?

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

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.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.