The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

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 world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.