Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

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.

Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

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