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

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

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?

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.

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

Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

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