As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.