Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.