People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

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?

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

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.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

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

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.