An artist's career always begins tomorrow

Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

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

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

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?

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.