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

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Nature is usually wrong.

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.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

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.

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.