Everything that is popular is wrong.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

The only sin is stupidity.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.