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

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

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

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?

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

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.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.