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.

There is no sin except stupidity.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.