I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Nature is usually wrong.

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

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

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

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.