Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.