Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.