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

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.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

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.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.