I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.