Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

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

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

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

Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

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

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.