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

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

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

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

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?

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

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