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.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.